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These images are part of "Rome In_Between" project, conceived in Roma FotoGrafia 09 and exhibited in Fnac galleries in Italy during 2010. "E42" opens the homonym collective publication curated by zoneattive and Tpw and published with Blurb. E  42  is  the  monumental  part  of  the  Europa  district  in  Rome.     It   was   built   during   Fascism,   in   the   second   half   of   the   1930s,   for   the   planned   Esposizione   Universale   Roma   in   1942.   Mussolini   conceived   it   to   celebrate   the   first   twenty   years   of   the   Fascist   regime   and   to   show  Italy’s  might  as  a  world  power.   The   E   42,   however,   was   not   built   solely   for   that   purpose.   In   fact,   it   was   intended   as   a   new   urban   centre,   unifying   fascist,   modern,   and   imperial   Rome,   as   well   as   the   first   step   to   expanding   the   city   symbolically   towards   the   Mediterranean   Sea,   which   Italy   aimed   to   dominate.   Because   of   the   outbreak   of   World   War   II,   the   universal   exhibition   never   took   place   and   the   projected   expansion   remained   a   utopia.   In   the   aftermath   of   the   war,   E42   became   a   business   centre   and   it   currently   takes   in   several   Government   departments.   This   architecture   of   power   is   now   a   sort   of   “en   plein   air”   museum   in   the   outskirt  of  Rome.