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Water and Asphalt

The Project of Isotropy

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Living and working, water and asphalt: the 21st century's urban challenges


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Edited by Paola Viganò, Lorenzo Fabian, Bernado Secchi
2016
Paperback
240 pages, 216 color and 79 b/w illustrations
22.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-906027-71-5

Water and Asphalt, the latest volume in the UFO series, investigates the metropolitan area of Venice with regard to the increasing separation of residential and industrial neighborhoods. It is based on an extensive research project at Venice’s Università IUAV on urban density and sprawl.

The densely populated metropolitan region around the world-famous “Sernenissima”, crisscrossed by networks of roads and waterways, provides the ideal test case for imagining the concept termed by this study as the Project of Isotropy. The researchers argue that conditions now exist for redevising the isotropic space in Venice with a focus on the water system, roads and public transportation, alternative mobility, forms of diffused welfare, innovative agriculture, and the decentralized production of energy.

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