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[lsanderson]

Venice Turns to Future to Rescue Its Past
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, International Herald Tribune

"VENICE - When Jane da Mosto scrambles from the water taxi onto the front steps of her family's ancient palazzo on the Grand Canal, her gaze is tinged with mourning. The once glorious Casa da Mosto is now little more than a decaying, waterlogged shell of a building, the rising and increasingly salty water of Venice lapping at the door and eating away at its walls. "

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

My feeling is still that Venice has never been in equilbrium with the lagoon, but has always been in conflict trying to live in this marginal environment. Technology changes both the destruction we can wreak on the environment (and hence threatens Venice) and provides potential solutions.

I'm just not sure that any of them are long-term solutions.