TY - BOOK AU - Settis,Salvatore AU - Naffis-Sahely,André TI - If Venice dies SN - 9781939931375 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - New Vessel Press KW - Tourism KW - Social aspects KW - Italy KW - Venice KW - Venice (Italy) KW - Civilization KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Threat of destruction N1 - 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 ER -