Toward an Active Tiber Corridor in Saxa RubraAlexey Mityaev and Iliade Sakr

Many metropolitan river corridors remain ecologically protected yet socially inaccessible, functioning as fragmented edges rather than lived urban landscapes. In Rome’s northern floodplain, the Tiber at Saxa Rubra exemplifies this condition.
Located at Rome’s northern threshold, the area has long functioned as a passage rather than a place: from its role as a military frontier and gateway along the Via Flaminia, through its centuries-long use as an agricultural hinterland shaped by flooding, to its later transformation into a modern infrastructure corridor defined by rail, industry, and large mono-functional enclaves. Today, these layered infrastructures and land uses produce a landscape in which access to ecological resources, public transport, and everyday social and health-related amenities remains discontinuous and uneven.