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Sinking and Shrinking Cities. New Orleans and Venice in Comparison: reading

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Berndt Ostendorf, Ludwig Maximilians Universität - Luca Pes, Venice International University

New Orleans:

 Margaret Plant, Venice Fragile City 1797-1997, Yale University Press 2001.

 Henry A. Giroux. “Reading Hurricane Katrina: Race, Class, and the Biopolitics of Disposability.” College Literature 33.3 (Summer 2006): 171-196. Lawrence Powell.

 “New Orleans: An American Pompeii,” In: R. Wagnleitner (ed.), Satchmo Meets Amadeus Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich, 2006.

Venice:
 
 Gherardo Ortalli and Giovanni Scarabello, A Short History of Venice, Pacini Editore, Pisa 1999.

 Margaret Plant, Venice Fragile City 1797-1997, Yale University Press 2001.

 Ignazio Musu, Venice and its Lagoon, in I. Musu (ed.), Sustainable Venice: Suggestions for the Future, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London 2001. 


A course packet with photocopies of primary and secondary reading will be made available.

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