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• One of Venice Insider's top 10 books on Venice, 2018

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9781787352407

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'...The beautifully designed book fulfils a dreamy mission of aggrandizing the titular city's history and beauty while recognizing its fragility and potential demise because of climate change and overcrowding from tourists and their marine vehicles ... Psarra deals very carefully with the history of Piazza San Marco and its central position in civic and religious interpretations of the city.' The Architect's Newspaper 'A visual treat that is made more accessible and meaningful through the diagrams.' A Daily Dose of Architecture Books 'An imaginative and ambitious account of urban development and the architect's means of engagement with it. The text is expansive, offering a virtuoso display of different modes of knowing. ... Both a history and a proposed methodology, a concatenation of erudition and imagination. ...What is the relevance of an architectural imagination that does not engage with such social and political concerns. The book certainly suggests why it would be important for it to do so.' Buildings & Cities 'Psarra animates the city as a creature that is based on the dialogue between anonymous collective and branded individual imagination. It reconstitutes the principles and ways of thinking that allowed Venice to act as a source of inspiration... It shows us how the natural city, and its mythological plots that we have in our minds, are being embodied in an open creativity. The book can be purchased in classic print or purchased electronically at no cost.' Smells Like Urban Spirit (SLUS) 'The book shows us the value of doing diachronic history. We see how useful it is to learn about twentieth-century architecture along with Renaissance spaces. Similarly, we see the value in a truly multi-disciplinary history in which Calvino and Le Corbusier are on equal footing. In all of this, we must wonder how history can be more creative and provocative. As Psarra shows, there is a lot we can learn from Venice.' Modern Italy

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Sophia Psarra is Professor of Architecture and Spatial Design and Director of the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD Programme at UCL.

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