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Method Of Intervention For Transforming And Modernising Old Town Centres: The Case Of The Vaulted Masonry Pipeline Laid Underground Along Via Garibaldi In Venice

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

29

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

1,261 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/STR970621

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

G. Riva & P. Valle

Abstract

If on one hand the rationalization of sub-services in the old centres of Italian towns is an essential stage in their revitalization, on the other hand it involves complex methodological and planning aspects that are sometimes underestimated and which concern the compatibility of the systems of the new plant with the existing masonry infrastructures and the problems of keeping them in an efficient state of repair and recovering their functionality. The case considered is located in the old centre of Venice and concerns an important operation of transforming the urban structure at the beginning of the

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