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Engineered Isolation: Quarantine Architecture and Lazaretto Infrastructure in the Venice Outer Lagoon

Engineered Isolation: Quarantine Architecture and Lazaretto Infrastructure in the Venice Outer Lagoon Venice’s outer lagoon harbours one of history’s most consequential experiments in built public health. For more than four centuries, the islands of Lazzaretto Vecchio and Lazzaretto Nuovo served as the operational nodes of a quarantine system that became […]

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