Sinking City of Italy - Venice Summative Case Study Mind Map

Sinking Ground

Venice is built on many wood piles (they look like giant wooden skewers) and the skewers go into two different layers of clay under the water.

the building are compressing the many layers of clay, slit and mud, therefore causing natural sinking.

Plate Tectonics

Venice Sits on

City of Venice

Overtourism, mass amounts of tourists every year produce a huge percentage of waste, air pollution and water pollution, these types of pollution come from tourist using boats, farriers, cruises, living.

Mass amounts of tourist walking on streets and living in buildings that shouldn't have to uphold so much weight and foot traffic

Overtoruism, the more tourist = government build more hotels and amenities for the tourist to stay at or turn resident homes to rentals for tourists

Naturally Sinking

Air Pollution

Pollution in the air, caused by tourist using boats, cruises and farriers and water busses.

Air pollution can cause the weather patterned to become unstable, this means that it's easier for storms to just form.

Adriatic Sea

Venice Naturally is very prone to high tides