How Venice's wood survives
An Age of Why cinematic history explainer. Original AI-generated illustrative imagery and reconstructions; synthetic narration. Illustrative images are not records of specific events.
Sources:
A Look at Venice: Past and Present — https://illumin.usc.edu/a-look-at-venice-past-and-present/
The caranto paleosol and its role in the early urbanization of Venice — https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gea.20361
An investigation into preservation of wood from Venice foundations — https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/313591
The wooden foundations of Rialto Bridge (Ponte di Rialto) in Venice: Technological characterisation and dating — https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/370104
Foundation Retrofit and Rehabilitation — https://www.uaf.edu/ces/publications/database/housing/foundation-retrofit.php
Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article) — https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/21/2643/2021/
Traditional wooden foundation piles in Amsterdam and Venice: Techniques for the assessment of their state of conservation — https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/traditional-wooden-foundation-piles-in-amsterdam-and-venice-techn/
Chapters:
0:00 A city standing on hidden wood
1:02 Soft mud and an ancient buried soil
2:18 Stakes, rafts and stone
4:12 Why water keeps rot away
5:25 Secrets beneath the Rialto Bridge
6:50 Decayed wood, standing buildings
8:01 When the water moves
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