The problem is, here in Italy, we are over-defensive towards the "artistic soul" of a city, often refusing to modernize some areas just because a lot of people

The problem is, here in Italy, we are over-defensive towards the "artistic soul" of a city, often refusing to modernize some areas just because a lot of people think it could "ruin" the artistic soul of the whole place. Another example is in Turin where there was a battle to try to stop the build of the first skyscraper because it could be higher than the Mole Antonelliana, the main monument of the city. In the end the skyscraper was built but they forced the architects to make it high just some meters below the height of the Mole. And still today there are protesters who say it ruined all the city. Trying to modernize even some peripheral areas of Rome will be really hard.