Rome is often described as eternal, but its endurance does not come from stability. It comes from transformation.

Persisting with Change is a curated digital map featuring 90+ selected places in Rome and its surroundings, designed to reveal how the city has continuously adapted across millennia. Rather than following a chronological history or a list of monuments, the map traces processes: ancient roads still guiding movement, aqueducts feeding daily life, medieval stairs shaped by Roman slopes, markets occupying the same ground for centuries, and modern infrastructure layered over unresolved pasts.

From prehistoric landscapes to imperial systems, from medieval reuse to modern urban interventions, each location includes a concise historical text written for non-specialists, connecting deep time to the present city. Together, these places form a readable stratigraphy of Rome, where persistence is not the absence of change, but its result.

This map is intended for travelers, students, researchers, designers, and anyone interested in understanding cities as evolving organisms—where history does not disappear, but continues to operate beneath, within, and alongside everyday life.