Contributions

  • Bywater, Michael - Contributor
  • Paneikon Television Productions - Contributor
  • Pilot Film and Television Productions - Contributor
  • Channel Four (Great Britain) - Contributor
  • European Union. Media Programme - Contributor
and 1 more
  • Films for the Humanities (Firm) - Contributor

Publication

2004 - [distributed by] Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

13,000 words, Guess

Page Count

52 pages

Physical Format

Video Recording

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • Pisa
  • Nova (Television program)

Description

To save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from further leaning and eventual collapse, the Italian government appointed a scientific committee to devise a solution. This program documents the committee's activities in the 1990s: discussions, building and soil analyses, and controversial answers to the structure's ongoing decline, from the weights placed on the rising north side in 1993 to the 1999 soil extraction procedure. Includes interviews with John Burland, professor of geotechnics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Piero Pierotti, professor of medieval architecture at the University of Pisa, Carlo Viggiani, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, and Giorgio Macchi, professor of structural engineering at the University of Pavia.

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