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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: