Urban maintenance in Venice: the future of the city considered from a strategic point of view
Urban maintenance in Venice.
Insula: 10 years working for the city
No city in the world needs what Venice needs. That’s why city’s ordinary maintenance is really extraordinary maintenance requiring the intervention of specialized highly-qualified enterprises and strategically planned and coordinated works.The ten year activity of Insula, the public company that since 1997 has been in charge of the urban maintenance of Venice and its islands, has produced not only a series of works for preserving the city’s foundations and improving life and sanitary quality, but also a group of technicians and enterprises that constantly work on developing new qualified and highly specialized capacities.
The book “Urban maintenance in Venice. Insula: 10 years working for the city” is an amazing description of the most advanced urban maintenance work in the world. They emptied channels, raised street levels, created pedestrian routes with breathtaking views, discovered antique foundations telling the story of a unique city immersed in an element that is also the principle cause of its deterioration: brackish water.
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