La città giardino di Marghera

Abstract

The centenary of the establishment of the Industrial Zone of Venice is also the year in which the italian Ministry of Heritage declared the garden-city of Marghera a site “of considerable public interest” and for this reason, to be placed under protection. The Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti this involved scholars of vious disciplines and initiated a transverse reflection on Venice in the first 50 years of the Twentieth Century, the last in which the city really did plan its transformations on a large scale and established significant international relations: Venice and Europe is thus the subject of this book. In the contradictions between ‘modernist’ design, effective production and reclamation of the surrounding land, the Garden-city of Marghera is in any case an innovative example of Venetian town planning, in a period when new models of residential extensions were being tried out throughout Europe and elsewhere in Italy (Milan and Rome).