Venice: Myths of the past in cities of the present and in the age of the media

Abstract

The author is Professor of Urban Geography and Dean of the Department of Town and Country Planning at the University of Rome, La Sapienza"; Director of the GIS School of the same university; Scientific Editor of Sistema Terra; Fellow of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice; and a member of the Worìd Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper distributed to participants at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City inthe 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001, which the author was finally unable to attend.