People have been living in Rome, the longest continually inhabited place on the planet, for the past 3,000 years. Every square inch of the city has, at some point, been the site of a building, road, or park—and most inches have seen all three—making space hard to come by. So, when the directors of the Pontifical Lateran University, one of Rome’s Vatican-sponsored institutes of higher learning, needed to build a reading room for its library, they immediately thought of how little land they could spare and how much they needed to squeeze onto it.
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