The political debate of these last months left behind the economic future of Venice. The habit to the extensive exploitment of revenues, not just in the historical centre, broke the habit of reasoning about possible alternatives. What is most striking, is that the problem was not advanced at a (...)

The debate on the ongoing dynamics of urban transformation is becoming louder and louder, since these dynamics have had an acceleration and dimensions unthinkable until some years ago, and happened after several quick changes in economy and society, in the trasports’development, in lifestyles, (...)

Myvenice.org was born with the exact aim, represented by a group of scholars and entrepreneurs which joined into the Venice Foundation 2000, to build a community of virtual citizens of Venice. In the first number of the newsletter of the year 2004, they explicitly wrote about the will to start (...)

FS-Venice is always described as a fragile city needing a lot of attentions, and these attentions are certainly something that has to be given from all those who administer all the complex tasks that each city, Venice included, has to fulfil every day. To ensure people’s mobility is definitely (...)

The doors of the city have always been particularly meaningful places, representative of the city itself. They were the only points from which it was possible to cross the ancient city walls, from there people went in and out of the city, declared their origins and paid tolls. Nowadays, with (...)

The idea of the Chart of Urban Transformations originated from the need to have at disposal a communication channel with the city, in order to talk about the development of particularly relevant and complex projects, as to the high number of people involved, the importance of the areas and the (...)

"Venice can become an acid test, inside the ideological conditions of globalism, of how and if the specificity can return to be an essential element of modernity"; so writes Vittorio Gregotti in ‘Venice. City of the new modernity’, edited by the Consorzio Venezia Nuova (Society New Venice) in (...)

After the starting-up of various projects in many European cities, Venice too embarked on the path of the Strategic Plan as a mean for focusing on medium term goals, activities and perspectives, all of which are shared and supported by a multitude of active participants. The Strategic Plan is a (...)