TY - BOOK ID - 77876702 TI - Venice from the ground up PY - 2008 SN - 0674040848 9780674040847 9780674027527 0674027523 0674266013 0674023331 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - City planning KW - Cities and towns KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban development KW - Urban planning KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Regional planning KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - History. KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - Venice (Italy) KW - Description and travel. KW - Description UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876702 AB - Venice came to life on mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen and traders who settled there crafted a way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known. In an astonishing feat of narrative history, James H. S. McGregor recreates this world, with its waterways rather than roads and its livelihood harvested from the sea. The narrative follows both a chronological and geographical organization, so that readers can trace the city's evolution by chapter and visitors can explore it by district on foot and by boat. ER -