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Abstract: THE FUTURE OF THE URBAN INDUSTRIAL PAST, INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLIGY, HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY AND THE CITY’S HISTORY The author affirms the necessity of a decentralized undertaking on the territory in an effort to reconstruct the roman industry’s chart outlining locations, typologies, sizes and productive sectors. Sources for such an evaluation must be gathered, besides the investigations on the visible material ruins, using the scattered visual and written data stored in archives and bureaus that for administrative purposes have dealt with the industry business. The basic knowledgeable element of each research on the industrial society seems to be the factory, itself, whose, organizational, productive, and social resources tend to be forgotten. However, the latter should not be identified with its high concentration of wealth and human resources system. In this respect, the “Roman” case holds a specific role in understanding the relation between the history of the city and its industry, likewise. As a matter of fact, ever since 1931, Rome has been the third industrial city in Italy. Still, it has kept a production framework which was based upon medium and small-sized plants spread all over the city rather than being solely concentrated in the industrial zones regulated by the urban development plan. Such understanding is important in relation to the projects made and the restrictive clauses of legislation concerning territorial safeguard. In fact, every single intervention dealing with the destruction or the reclamation of the ruins and the abandoned areas must take into consideration not only the planning engineers’ and the construction’s architectural professional surveys, alike, but also the historical value that each individual factory had in relation to a particular urban context in which it was inserted as well as the productive sector it belonged to.