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The Lost Canals of Venice of America
- rmason 11y agoThere are actually seven rivers buried underneath the city of Detroit. There have been periodic efforts to get the city to surface some of them. The French settlers of the city envisioned it as a Venice of the Midwest. https://vimeo.com/62514522 https://vimeo.com/62514522
- dmritard96 11y agoThe real venice of america is Fort Lauderdale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
- cobweb 11y agoThanks, hard to imagine a young L.A. it's mind blowingly big, from a little Brit's perspective.
- tbingmann 11y agoSorry, but this is another really bad comparison to Venice. These cities have nowhere near the history of Venice as a medieval trade metropolis, nor are they actually built on islands in a lagoon. If you must compare a city with lots of canals to a European counterpart, at least take Amsterdam.
- unwind 11y agoBut the name of the Californian city really is Venice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice,_Los_Angeles), which I guess makes it kind of awkward to compare it to Amsterdam. Not sure if the article was a "comparison" at all, though, it read more like a history piece.
- maw 11y agoMexico City once had many canals and it was built over a lake. Today, not much of that is left, save in street names and in Xochimilco.
- kenrikm 11y agoWe still have a functioning version in South Florida called "los olas" (Fort Lauderdale area) http://www.pocockfineart.com/sitebuilder/images/1Aerial2copy-759x485.jpg http://www.pocockfineart.com/sitebuilder/images/1Aerial2copy...
- smpetrey 11y agoSome of the canals are still here, they weren't lost. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Venice,+Los+Angeles,+CA/@33.9831285,-118.4658459,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80c2bac03052685d:0x8f1101b40d5c8d3c https://www.google.com/maps/place/Venice,+Los+Angeles,+CA/@3...