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Venice on the Tracks

Anna Gilchrist & Lisa Hilton
Feb 17
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It is amazing the impact one architectural initiative can have on the future of a city. In Venice’s case, the introduction of a connecting railway to the mainland in 1861 irrevocably altered the city’s lagoon independence, ending its thousand-year history as an island state. It would have changed the mentality towards and reliance on the outside world, …

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