High floods in Venice blocked for the second time by the MOSE mobile dams
Posted by Dominic Standish on October 3, 2020 · Leave a Comment
Today, on 15 October 2020, the MOSE mobile dams blocked Venice from flooding for the second time. At 9.10 am, the tide was at 140 cm at the Malamocco dam outside the lagoon, but it was 54 cm at the Punta della Salute tide gauge inside the lagoon. So the MOSE dams kept Venice dry … Continue reading →
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Book review published in CityCity Magazine of ‘Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality’
Posted by Dominic Standish on November 18, 2013 · 1 Comment
The following review was published in the Autumn 2013 Issue Three of CityCity Magazine in London. Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality Dominic Standish University Press of America, 2012 Paperback £22-95 306 pp 978-0761856641 Reviewed by Federica Palomba, Sapienza University of Rome Venice is generally thought of as a city in environmental peril because … Continue reading →
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