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100

1870 was an important for the Church and Italy.


What is the year the Papal States lost control of Rome.

100

This neighborhood/park had Roman aqueducts that used to have people, displaced Romans and migrants from Central and Southern Italy, settling under them.

What is Tor Fiscale?

100

The snowball effect of middle class folks moving into working class neighborhoods that are in economic decline, which was typically due to deindustrialization. Middle class owners then renovate the properties and continue this process until all or most of the original residents are displaced.

What is Ruth Glass's Model of Gentrification/Classic Gentrification

100

1870 was an important year for Roman Jewish People

What is the abolition of the Jewish Ghetto?

100

This concept refers to the movement of chemicals within infrastructures and through humans and other living beings.

What is chemical embodiment?

200

This agreement established the Vatican City as its own state

The 1929 Lateran Accords

200

In this neighborhood, the clearest signs of "global visibility" are found in the free postcards and Passolini on a mural.

What is Pignetto?

200

This myth symbolized the transition from an organization of society around kinship, blood ties, to one organized around collective social agreement.

What is the myth of Romulus and Remus?

200

This place in every nation-state facilitates the construction of a national memory through monuments.

What is the capital city?

200

This concept is applied to explain how the history of the Bangladeshi diaspora in England indirectly shaped the formation and aspirations of the Bangladeshi diaspora in Rome.

What is Professor Cerulli's indirect colonialism?

300

In the early 20th century, priests did a procession to from Rome the Divino Amore sanctuary to perform this form of belonging.

What is symbolic citizenship?

300

This building was built out of marble from Piedmont, with people in finance agreeing with the municipality to pay for the marble's rennovations.

What is the Duomo.

300

A large, dense, and permanent settlement of heterogeneous individuals.

What is Louis Wirth's definition of the city.

300

The phenomenon that describes a locality being economically revitalized while at the same time being handicapped to serving outsiders more so than locals?

What is Thomas Hylland Eriksen's double bind of tourism.

300

This theory divides the world into three components "core," "periphery," and "semi-periphery."

What is Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory 

400

The building was designed for digital viewers more so than those in person viewers.

What is the New Sanctuary of the Divino Amore

400

This church had a different design due cutting ties with the Vatican after the arrests of two priests on the counts of sexual assault.

What is Basilica Santa Maria della Salute?  

400

This concept described the spread of influence as following a concentric pattern.

What is Stanley Tambiah's Galactic Polity?

400

The concept of governments having to power the make live and let die.

What is Foucault's biopolitics?

400

Sassen argues that cities have shifted from being centers of manufacturing to being advanced sites for the production of these two things.

What are specialized services and financial innovations?

500

In 15th century, Rome was described as a "crumbling, dirty medieval city" that survived primarily because of this "highly profitable trade."

What is religious pilgrimage?

500

The erosion of this natural resource withers away Venice's barrier to flooding

What is Venice's lagoon?

500

What metaphor describes the phenomenon of Romans being pushed out of the city center and into the city's ever expanding peripheries?

What is the half-squeezed orange?

500

This theory calls on us to think about globalization differently, using Rome as a an example of how it defies dominant understandings of globalization.

What is Thomassen and Vereni's Multiple Modernities

500

Many migrants find jobs in this market where they don't get paid that well but learn valuable skills.

What is the grey market?

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