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Streets of Venice

This entire city is centered around controlling water. Omnipresent front-door flood dam:

Venice has great doorbell game. If it hasn’t already been done, I think someone should make a coffee table book of these:

This city is also quite prolific when it comes to urban laundry:

We found a number of these street ladders. Presumably laundry related:

Religion in the streets:

Window garden:

Balcony gardens. Your reminder that (1) small balconies can still be impactful and that (2) balconies with a relationship to the street are used differently:

Colorful shoes and green curtains:

Grand Canal:

The kind of street we should allow in North American cities:

3 responses to “Streets of Venice”

  1. Aaron Fenton Avatar
    Aaron Fenton

    No 40 storey condos to see yet Venice continues. Perhaps perplexing to a developer mind.
    Thx for human scale street views.

    1. Brandon Graham Donnelly Avatar

      Not perplexing. City started its economic decline in the 18th century or so.

  2. […] Wonderful doorbells. Virtually every apartment in Venice, has an array of doorbells at its front door. They are beautiful, typically in metal, and almost always round. But in addition to looking nice, there is also something very personal and about seeing people’s names right on the street. This probably tells you something about how differently privacy and security are viewed in the city. […]

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