If Venice dies /
Settis, Salvatore,
If Venice dies / Salvatore Settis ; translated by André Naffis-Sahely. - 179 pages ; 21 cm
Forgetful Athens -- A Venice without Venetians -- The invisible city -- Toward Chongqing -- The language of skyscrapers -- The Forma Urbis: aesthetic redemption -- How much is Venice worth? -- The paradox of conservation, the poetics of reutilization -- Replicating Venice -- History's supermarket -- The truth of the simulacrum -- Margins -- The right to the city -- "Civic capital" and the right to work -- Spaceships of modernity -- Venice and Manhattan -- The architect's ethics: Hippocrates and Vitruvius -- Venice: a thinking machine.
Translated from the Italian.
9781939931375 1939931371
2016902102
Tourism--Social aspects--Italy--Venice.
Venice (Italy)--Civilization.
Venice (Italy)--History.
Venice (Italy)--Social conditions.
Venice (Italy)--Threat of destruction.
If Venice dies / Salvatore Settis ; translated by André Naffis-Sahely. - 179 pages ; 21 cm
Forgetful Athens -- A Venice without Venetians -- The invisible city -- Toward Chongqing -- The language of skyscrapers -- The Forma Urbis: aesthetic redemption -- How much is Venice worth? -- The paradox of conservation, the poetics of reutilization -- Replicating Venice -- History's supermarket -- The truth of the simulacrum -- Margins -- The right to the city -- "Civic capital" and the right to work -- Spaceships of modernity -- Venice and Manhattan -- The architect's ethics: Hippocrates and Vitruvius -- Venice: a thinking machine.
Translated from the Italian.
9781939931375 1939931371
2016902102
Tourism--Social aspects--Italy--Venice.
Venice (Italy)--Civilization.
Venice (Italy)--History.
Venice (Italy)--Social conditions.
Venice (Italy)--Threat of destruction.