Conservation Of The Modern Rampart Defensive Walls - The Experience Of The City Of Padua
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
42
Pages
10
Published
1999
Size
2,265 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/STR990631
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
C. Modena, G. Carbonara & M. Berti
Abstract
The technological and constructive solutions adopted to build defensive walls around the towns had to be substantially updated during the sixteenth century in order to efficiently counteract the devastating effects of the more and more powerful artillery used by attacking armies. The defensive works, in particular, became very complex systems made of sophisticated m
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