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If Venice Dies

If Venice Dies

Settis, Salvatore
Naffis-Sahely, André

Paperback

Conservation & PreservationGeneral Architecture

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1939931371
ISBN13: 9781939931375
Publisher: New Vessel Pr
Published: Sep 13 2016
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Anyone interested in learning what is really going on in Venice should read this book.--Donna Leon, author of My Venice and Other Essays and Death at La Fenice

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasure belong? This eloquent book by internationally renowned art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about the Queen of the Adriatic and cultural patrimony at large. Venetians are increasingly abandoning their hometown--there's now only one resident for every 140 visitors--and Venice's fragile fate has become emblematic of the future of historic cities everywhere as it capitulates to tourists and those who profit from them. In If Venice Dies, a fiery blend of history and cultural analysis, Settis argues that hit-and-run visitors are turning landmark urban settings into shopping malls and theme parks. This is a passionate plea to secure the soul of Venice, written with consummate authority, wide-ranging erudition, and élan.

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