Links
Safeguarding of Venice and its Lagoon
www.salve.it/uk/default.htm
Browse a glossary of useful terms related to Venice and its
lagoon, review a database featuring a myriad of proposed solutions
to Venice's flooding, read current news reports about the progress
of safeguarding Venice, find answers to frequently asked questions
about the efforts to protect Venice, and more.
Save Venice
www.savevenice.org/
Since 1967, Save Venice, an American organization, has worked to
restore and protect Venice's threatened artistic and architectural
treasures. At the Save Venice Web site, learn more about the
project's dozens of restoration projects, view maps and
photographs of Venice, and find schedules for Save Venice lectures
in New York and around the world.
Cities on Water
brezza.iuav.it/citiesonwater/
Venice is not the only waterside city threatened by floods. Visit
the Web site of the International Center of Cities on Water and
learn more about other cities tenuously perched by seas, lakes,
and rivers.
Books
Venice Against the Sea: A City Besieged
by John Keahey.
New York: Dunne Books, 2002.
Journalist John Keahey (see
Weighing the Solutions) offers a detailed account of why Venice is sinking and a
thorough review of what could be done with clever engineering and
oversight to save the city.
A History of Venice
by John Julius Norwich. New York:
Vintage Books, 1989.
This popular and comprehensive survey of Venice's long history
will appeal to history buffs and Venice lovers alike. Beginning in
the Roman period and continuing through Napoleon's surrender,
Norwich provides a fascinating background for the unique and
enthralling modern Venice we know today.
Tides: A Scientific History
by David Edgar Cartwright.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Humans have pondered how the tides work for millennia. Cartwright
presents the history of these musings, from the Greeks to
Descartes and Bacon, among others, and he includes photographs and
illustrations of an array of scientific equipment developed for
the study of the tides.
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