“IDENTITARY” IMAGE OF THE CITY Points of the research I am interested to the image of the city. I think that image could be an important piece of its identity. I would like to investigate on the moment when the image of a city become an entity that has a own life. (intellectual image) I think that the intellectual image is an “identitary” image that is separated from the normal image of the city and lives on it’s own account. I want to individualize this other image, the image that I could have about a city, without have seen it, the city imaginated by other form of representations but not the sight. Rome is a perfect example but it’s not the first reason of my research; its’ perfect because it has a super “identitary” image very known and studied from many different fields; for this reason I think it’s more easy to investigate its “identitary” image. 1.The image of a City the city as a monument (the roman empire, Le Corbusier, Robert Venturi, Rem Koolhaas) the city as a historical document (Giulio Carlo Argan, Cesare Brandi) the city as a work of art (Aldo Rossi) the conscience of the city image the use of the city image (cultural and economic ways) 2.The representation of the image of the city the myth of the city the city seen by media (cinema, T.V., advertising, internet) the tourist city how to represent the image of the city (real or unreal) the synthetic image 3. Case examinated (Rome) the weight of the history the myth of the history history as an image preservation of the image of the history in the contemporary era