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	[[File:dry placement.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|Masegni replacement of Calle Larga Contarina]]With Venice's local population and the addition of thousands of tourist a day traveling by foot on the ''[[calli]]'' of Venice, the street pavements can [[street\|Deteriorate]], be displaced, and in some cases suffer complete cracks. [[Paving Stones]] can also be displaced by constant [[Utilities\|Utility]] access. For these reasons constant maintenance is necessary in order to ensure that the historical importance of Venice's ancient [[Streets]] is sustained.<ref>Finn, Paul.The Building Blocks of Venice: Preserving knowledge of a city's infrastructure and maintenance. Worcester Ma. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.2011 [https://sites.google.com/site/venicemaintained/proposal]</ref>		[[File:dry placement.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|Masegni replacement of Calle Larga Contarina]]With Venice's local population and the addition of thousands of tourist a day traveling by foot on the ''calli'' of Venice, the street pavements can [[street\|Deteriorate]], be displaced, and in some cases suffer complete cracks. [[Paving Stones]] can also be displaced by constant [[Utilities\|Utility]] access. For these reasons constant maintenance is necessary in order to ensure that the historical importance of Venice's ancient [[Streets]] is sustained.<ref>Finn, Paul.The Building Blocks of Venice: Preserving knowledge of a city's infrastructure and maintenance. Worcester Ma. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.2011 [https://sites.google.com/site/venicemaintained/proposal]</ref>

	== Pavement Restoration ==		== Pavement Restoration ==

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[[File:dry placement.jpg|thumb|250px|Masegni replacement of Calle Larga Contarina]]With Venice's local population and the addition of thousands of tourist a day traveling by foot on the ''[[calli]]'' of Venice, the street pavements can [[street|Deteriorate]], be displaced, and in some cases suffer complete cracks. [[Paving Stones]] can also be displaced by constant [[Utilities|Utility]] access. For these reasons constant maintenance is necessary in order to ensure that the historical importance of Venice's ancient [[Streets]] is sustained.<ref>Finn, Paul.The Building Blocks of Venice: Preserving knowledge of a city's infrastructure and maintenance. Worcester Ma. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.2011 [https://sites.google.com/site/venicemaintained/proposal]</ref>

== Pavement Restoration ==
Pavement can be restored simply by removing damaged or sunken ''[[Masegno|masegni]]''. Since these large stones, like everything in Venice, have historical significance the existing ''[[Masegno|Masegni]]'' are reused and not replaced unless its completely necessary. [[Insula]] has constructed an in depth procedure of the [[Street Maintenance Procedure|Process]] in order to maintain the [[Streets]] appearance. Some areas of the city are paved with porphyry, cement or asphalt. When these areas are restored, the materials are replaced with more appropriate materials that closely match the appearance of the rest of the [[Streets]] in Venice.<ref>Ing. Lorenzo Bottazzo, Nov 2011 </ref>

== Raising the Pavement ==
It is one of [[Insula|Insula's]] projects to raise the pavements of Venice to avoid further drastic flooding of the city. This plan is first concerned with raising the lowest areas of the city's pavement which flood most often. Ideally [[Insula]] plans to have raised all pavements to a consistent 120 cm above the zero tide level measurement. While raising the pavements is a top priority, maintaining the original appearance of the walls, entrance to homes, public spaces, and the walkways themselves is of greater importance. For this reason the existing usable ''[[Masegno|Masegni]]'' stones are reused in the raising process. is an existing ''[[Masegno|masegni]]'' stone is deemed unusable new stones are made out of quarried [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachyte Trachyte] stone.<ref>Venice: preservation and urban maintenance(pamphlet). Insula spa. </ref>

== Maintenance Map ==
This map has all maintenance jobs [[Insula]] has completed, or is currently working. Included are the various pavement restorations.

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== See Also ==
*[[Street]]
*[[Streets]]
*[[Street Maintenance Procedure]]

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
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