The view across the water from St. Mark’s Square. Photo by Jennifer Hattam. “Venice gives us a hint of the truly possible and inspiring pedestrian environments,” Richard Register , the founder of Ecocity Builders , wrote a couple of years back. He sounded the

same note at his organization’s 8th Ecocity World Summit in Istanbul last month, holding the Italian city up as an example of … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Sinking, Emptying Venice An Eco-City Exemplar?