The Teachings of Rome

by Jay Walljasper
Notre Dame Magazine Autumn 2009

In his book, Timeless Cities, David Mayernik, an associate professor at Notre Dame’s School of Architecture as well as an architect and painter, muses about what might happen if the thousands of Americans visiting Rome each month returned home fired up about improving their own communities.

“How much better it would be if these urban tourists came home and went about lobbying for better neighborhoods, accessible and beautiful public space or some kind of limit to sprawl — and then even began thinking about what their cities meant, or should mean?”

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