Via Giulia

I really enjoyed seeing a completely straight street in the middle of Rome. The twists and turns of older European streets are confusing for Americans used to more predictability. I really like seeing how the Renaissance set up the original city planning, especially since I happen to have been forced to learn a little bit about the modern process as my dad works on our local planning commission. I guess, I have mostly thought his work was the most boring thing you could pick to do with your Wednesday evening. I never really considered that without it we would be scattered and twisty turny like the older cities of Europe.

The Via Guilia is a nice peak back into the time of the Renaissance but of course many things interfere with it's original idea of organization. The first is that it has been a problem since the beginning that the streets that connect to it are not so well planned out, so there kind of isn't too much of an actual point to the Via Guilia because nothing else around it is planned really. I mean things are simple when your on the road looking for a connecting street but as soon as you find said connecting street all bets are off. There were some obviously out of place modern buildings that were reconstructed to match. A part from that however, the road still achieves its intended effect I think, of providing insight into city planning and Renaissance design.