Bibliograph

If Venice dies, Salvatore Settis ; translated by André Naffis-Sahely

Type

Label

If Venice dies, Salvatore Settis ; translated by André Naffis-Sahely

Language

eng

Illustrations

charts

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

If Venice dies

Oclc number

938996946

Responsibility statement

Salvatore Settis ; translated by André Naffis-Sahely

Table Of Contents

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

Classification