This study documents our analysis of a small neighborhood in the Roman periphery, approximately 10 kilometers southwest of the Roman city center, known as Piscine di Torre Spaccata (PTS). PTS’s development occurred quite late in the city’s history, with most of the construction occurring in the 1980s. However, the lack of funding, crime, and eventual absorption of part of the neighborhood by the government during its development has led to the creation of barriers and divisions within the neighborhood as well as between PTS and its external surroundings. The first part of this book documents our research and analysis of PTS as a team. We gathered information on the physicality of PTS through numerous site-visits and documented these collected information in map form. As for the socioeconomic dimensions, we utilized street surveys, livability audits, and resident interviews to gather a broad understanding of the neighborhood, while extensive demographic statistic research grounded our analysis. These methods resulted in our identification of a key underlying problem of PTS: a disconnect between residents of the public housing and those living in the private housings. This dichotomy between the residents has led to issues such as lack of maintenance of public spaces and thus the lack of public gathering areas, a large amount of physical barriers such as fences, walls, and hedges that isolate different parts of the neighborhood, an aging population as the younger demographics continues to leave PTS, leading to a desolate commercial strip as the already small population of PTS continues to shrink, and ultimately, the lack of cohesive understanding and identity for PTS as a neighborhood. That is not to say that all of the residents have given up on the connecting the neighborhood, however. Our research concludes with a discussion of how the residents have begun to fight for change in PTS in order to break down the barriers that separate them from each other, their government representatives, and the prosperous future their neighborhood has the potential to realize. The second part of this book translates these research into an urban design proposal, as our team works to make the most out of existing opportunities such as established neighborhood initiatives and nearby commercial, historic, and industrial areas while addressing the key concern of barriers that divide our neighborhood.