Si Venecia muere

The slow death of Venice reveals the future of so many other cities: their intrinsic value makes them liable to become a souvenir, apparently beautiful, but devoid of life. On the way between outrage and proposal, If Venice dies forces us to think about the city we want, in its urban, cultural and social planning. He questions the monoculture of tourism that devastates diversity, mocks the supposed need for skyscrapers and claims the immaterial wealth that cities can offer us. Salvatore Settis offers us a lucid analysis marked by his status as a historian and archaeologist, in which he clairvoyantly exposes how the loss of the human and historical part of cities inevitably leads to the loss of our own identity.