Isabella Clough Marinaro is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at John Cabot University, Rome.Bjørn Thomassen is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark.

"[Global Rome] is to be praised as an original, rich, and important contribution to the study of Rome. February 2015"—H-Italy"[T]his is a decidedly welcome addition to the growing body of Anglophone work on Rome."—Urban History"[I]nnovative . . . . [T]here is no equivalent book currently available in any language. . . . [W]ill lend itself to semester-length courses on Rome as an 'urban laboratory.'"—John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles

• Introduction: The Changing Faces of RomeISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND BJØRN THOMASSENPart I. Rome: The Local and the Global City1. Diversely Global RomeBJØRN THOMASSEN AND PIERO VERENI 2. The Liberal, the Neoliberal and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome MICHAEL HERZFELD3: Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries PIERLUIGI CERVELLI4. Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary RomePIERPAOLO MUDU Part II. Changing Faces, Changing Places5. Torpignattara/Banglatown: Processes of Re-urbanization and Rhetorics of Locality in an Outer Suburb of RomeALESSANDRA BROCCOLINI6. Foreign Pupils, Bad Citizens. The Public Construction of Difference in a Roman SchoolPIERO VERENI7. Evicting Rome's Undesirables: Two Short TalesISABELLA CLOUGH MARINARO AND ULDERICO DANIELE8. The Rootedness of a Community of Xoraxané Roma in RomeMARCO SOLIMENE9. Ways of Living in the Market City. Bufalotta and the Porta di Roma Shopping CenterCARLO CELLAMAREPart III. Rome and its Fractured Modernities10. Roma, Città SportivaSIMON MARTIN11. Football, Romanità and the Search for StasisMARK DYAL12. Rome's Contemporary PastVALERIE HIGGINSPart IV. The Informal City13. The Self-Made CityCARLO CELLAMARE14. Marginal Centers: Learning from Rome's PeripheryFERRUCCIO TRABALZI15. Residence Roma: Senegalese Immigrants in a Vertical VillageCRISTINA LOMBARDI DIOP16. Where is Culture in Rome? Self-Managed Social Centers and the Right to Urban SpacePIERPAOLO MUDU17. Greening Rome: Rediscovering Urban AgricultureFERRUCCIO TRABALZIContributorsIndex