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  • + gueste4a052b Ellena Cordahi 1 month ago
    Hi Fabio!
    Stopped by to visit your blog! Wow!!! Impressive. I just glanced at it. Will certainly come back to find out more. Very interesting indeed. very well done!
    Will talk to you soon.
    Ella.
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  1. Saving the Venetiansa Venetian’s perspective about the controversy around MOSE
  2. Saving the Venetiansa Venetian’s perspective about the controversy around MOSE
    Saving Venezia & Protecting New Orleans
    The Debate Surrounding Italy’s Most Innovative Technology
    ILICA– St. John’s University
    New York City: September 25, 2009
    Prof. Fabio Carrera
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Venice Project Center
    carrera@wpi.edu
    www.venice2point0.org
  3. Fabio Carrera
    1961-1978
    1977-1979
    ½ Ma
    1979 -1988 (today)BSEE, MSCS
    1988 - 2008
    ½ Ve
    1996 – 2004PhD
    2007 -
    ½ SFe
  4. 20 years of projects
  5. Past Recognition
    8/2003
    9/2005
    9/2003
    8/1999
    9/2002
    10/2003
  6. National Geographic Video
    Channel: National Geographic Video
    Series Title: Out There
    Program Title: City under Siege
    Aired around the world: 2002-today
  7. Latest Recognition
  8. NG Interactive Map
  9. Outline
    • History of controversies (resolved)
    • A Venetian’s perspective
    • Opportunity costs
    • The next challenge/opportunity
  10. Premises
    • Personal Interactions with CVN
    • Top notch professionals
    • High Regard for Expertise
    • Admiration for achievements
    • Confidence in outcome
  11. Outline
    • History of controversies(resolved)
    • A Venetian’s perspective
    • Opportunity costs
    • The next challenge/opportunity
  12. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  13. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  14. Excessive Depths
    • Designed to allow big ships (~15m)
    • vs. Natural Depths (~3-6m)
    • Effects of deeper channels?
  15. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  17. Environmental Impacts
    • Effect of closures on ecosystem
    • RED herring?
    • Infrequent closings
    • Alternating openings/closings…
    • Ideology?
  18. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  19. Efficacy Questions
    • Hinges under water…
    • Dangers of failure
    • High Maintenance
  20. A truly unique design
    St. Petersburg
    Rotterdam
    London
  21. A truly unique design
    St. Petersburg
    Rotterdam
    London
  22. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  23. ConcessionarioUnico
  24. Monopoly Issues
    • Sole contractor
    • No tender
    • EU anti-trust rules
    • Resolved diplomatically
  25. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  26. Cost
    • Initial vs. final
    • Biggest undertaking in Italy ever
    • Who’s footing the bill?
    • Overruns?
  27. The cost of Saving Venice
    Current cost = 6.8 billion USD
  28. The controversy...
    • Excessive Depths of Channels
    • Environmental Impacts
    • Efficacy questions
    • Monopoly/Anti-trust issues
    • Cost
    • Maintenance
  29. 41 gates
    19 gates
    18 gates
  30. Maintenance
    • 78 gates
    • Duration of each maintenance?
    • Cost per gate?
    • 100 year budget?
  31. Closing the controversy
    • MOSE will be built
    • It will work
    • It will spare Venice from acquaalta
    • It is a great public work
    • As Italians we should be proud of it
  32. Outline
    • History of controversies (resolved)
    • A Venetian’s perspective
    • Opportunity costs
    • The next opportunity
  33. A Venetian’s View
    • Useful?
    • Adequate?
    • Opportune?
  34. A Venetian’s View
    • Useful?
    • Adequate?
    • Opportune?
  35. The original scare
    November 4, 1966
  36. The reaction
  38. The citizens of Venice have been begging for this since 1966…
  39. The citizens of Venice have been begging for this since 1966…
  40. The Venice City Council has consistently voted AGAINST the project from day one!
    The citizens of Venice have been begging for this since 1966…
  41. What is MOSE useful for?
    • Protecting Venetians’ lives?
    • Protecting our monuments?
    • Making daily life easier?
    • Sparing us costly clean-ups?
  42. What is MOSE useful for?
    • Protecting Venetians’ lives?
    • Protecting our monuments?
    • Making daily life easier?
    • Sparing us costly clean-ups?
  43. But at least the flood gates will save lives…
  44. But at least the flood gates will save lives…
  45. Nobody has ever died of a flood in Venice…
    But at least the flood gates will save lives…
  46. What is MOSE useful for?
    • Protecting Venetians’ lives?
    • Protecting our monuments?
    • Making daily life easier?
    • Sparing us costly clean-ups?
  47. Monuments will be spared certain destruction…
  48. Monuments will be spared certain destruction…
  49. Has the difference in actual damage caused by water vs. moisture been quantified?
    Monuments will be spared certain destruction…
  50. What is MOSE useful for?
    • Protecting Venetians’ lives?
    • Protecting our monuments?
    • Making daily life easier?
    • Sparing us costly clean-ups?
  51. Impacts on daily life
  52. What is MOSE useful for?
    • Protecting Venetians’ lives?
    • Protecting our monuments?
    • Making daily life easier?
    • Sparing us costly clean-ups?
  53. What is MOSE useful for?
    • Protecting Venetians’ lives?
    • Protecting our monuments?
    • Making daily life easier?
    • Sparing us costly clean-ups?
  54. How costly are clean-ups?
    • How much for big ones?
    • Lost business?
    • Totals per year/decade?
    • Compared to MOSE?
  55. A Venetian’s View
    • Useful?
    • Adequate?
    • Opportune?
  56. But at least it will solve the Acqua Alta problem once and for all…
  57. But at least it will solve the Acqua Alta problem once and for all…
  58. It is a stopgap measure that may last 100 years…
    at best
    But at least it will solve the Acqua Alta problem once and for all…
  60. A Venetian’s View
    • Useful?
    • Adequate?
    • Opportune?
  61. Little known fact: the project is fully funded by an Arabian oil prince…
  62. Little known fact: the project is fully funded by an Arabian oil prince…
  63. The Italian Government
    is channeling
    millions of taxpayer euros into this project
    Little known fact: the project is fully funded by an Arabian oil prince…
  64. €uros
    €uros
    €uros
  65. Insula
  66. €uros
    €uros
    €uros
  67. Privatizing Restorations
  68. Monuments in Peril?
  70. A Coke machine in every Campo…
  71. €uros
    €uros
    €uros
  72. Outline
    • History of controversies (resolved)
    • A Venetian’s perspective
    • Opportunity costs
    • The next challenge/opportunity
  73. The Opportunity Costs
    • Urban Maintenance
    • Heritage Preservation
    • Housing Policies
    • Economic Development
    • Control of Tourism
  74. A Venetian’s Concerns…(hint: it’s not acquaalta)
  75. A Venetian’s Concerns…(hint: it’s not acquaalta)
    • Quality of life!
    • Impacts of Tourism
    • Economic diversity
    • Cost of Housing
    • Demographic Decline
  77. structures: 191
    beds: 11208
  78. structures: 202
    beds: 11615
  79. structures: 274
    beds: 12379
  80. structures: 331
    beds: 12974
  81. structures: 416
    beds: 14217
  82. structures: 502
    beds: 15322
  83. structures: 632
    beds: 16149
  84. structures: 834
    beds: 17216
  85. structures: 1048
    beds: 19145
  86. structures: 1516
    beds: 22935
  88. Outline
    • History of controversies (resolved)
    • A Venetian’s perspective
    • Opportunity costs
    • The next challenge/opportunity
  89. Challenge #1
    Permanently protect Venice from major
    sea-level rise
  91. Permanent “Dutch” solution?
  94. ?
  95. Opportunity #1
    Leverage the expertise developed for MOSE to develop a plan for the permanent closure of the Lagoon
    (start now)
  96. Challenge #2
    Control the impacts of tourism
    on the City and its citizens
  97. ???
  98. Which flood to stop?
  100. Opportunity #2
    • Develop solutions to limit the number of tourists
    • Maximize the economic benefits of tourism for all citizens
    • Eliminate the costs incurred by the City to deal with tourists
  101. Challenge #3
    Keep Venice from becoming a “dead” museum city
  102. State of “botteghe”
  104. Opportunity #3
    • Keep housing affordable
    • Foster economic development in “immaterial” high-technology
    • Leverage established expertise in:
    • heritage conservation,
    • environmental protection,
    • urban maintenance and
    • Tourism management
  106. Save the
    VENETIANS
  107. FabioCarrera
    www.venice2point0.org
    Blog:
    venice2point0.blogspot.com
    carrera@wpi.edu
    carrera@mit.edu
  108. Saving the Venetiansa Venetian’s perspective about the controversy around MOSE
    Saving Venezia & Protecting New Orleans
    The Debate Surrounding Italy’s Most Innovative Technology
    ILICA– St. John’s University
    New York City: September 25, 2009
    Prof. Fabio Carrera
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Venice Project Center
    carrera@wpi.edu
    www.venice2point0.org

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