Venice, Italy: Balancing Antiquity and Sustainability

Abstract

Despite being a city held in the collective imaginary—indeed one based on a wealth of images, words, sounds, and colors gathered over centuries of culture—Venice needs to be understood as a modern city in which a person still wants to live and work.

Notes

The collection of data has been realized with the collaboration of Antongiulio Zanrosso.

1. http://www.comune.venezia.it/.

2. http://www.port.venice.it/.

3. Paul the Deacon (ca. 720–799), also known as Paulus Diaconus, in his Historia Langobardorum, III, 23.

4. http://www.salve.it/.

5. http://www.comune.venezia.it/.

6. Charter of European Cities and Towns Toward Sustainability, approved by the participants at the European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns in Aalborg, Denmark, on May 27, 1994. See http://ec.europa.eu/environment/urban/pdf/aalborg_charter.pdf.

7. The Venice Local Agenda 21 is the UN action plan for sustainable development, applied at the local level as a partnership process among local bodies.

8. “City Top-Level Logistic Node” is one of the development lines identified by the Strategic Plan. Venice, for its strategic geographical position and for the availability of spaces along the waterfront, can play the role of a logistical pole for services, distribution, and stock of high-level goods.

9. http://www.comune.venezia.it/.

10. http://www.venicecube.it/.

11. http://www.univiu.org/.

12. http://www.ventodivenezia.it/.

13. http://www.vegapark.ve.it/.

14. http://www.regione.veneto.it/.

15. http://www.parchidimestre.it/.

16. http://www.consorziovenezianuova.com/ ;http://www.salve.it/.

17. http://www.cipecomitato.it/.

18. http://www.salve.it/.

19. Ibid.

20. http://www.port.venice.it/.

21. http://www.fondazioneimpresa.it/.