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Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by ecpottinger on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:25PM (#18586309)
How much to make the buildings float? One by one floats could be added to the buildings and cross connected to prevent individual building tipping.

It will take time and money, but they are already talking about spending big bucks anyway.

Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by IshKebab on Monday December 03, 2018 @02:37AM (#18587015)
Probably an insane amount. You would have to reinforce the buildings internally so they could withstand the additional forces. Might be cheaper to build a new Venice.
Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by starbeast on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:27AM (#18586535)
If sea level rise does ever seriously get out of hand, that is my prediction for parts of Tokyo and New York. I strongly suspect that some coastal cities would rather float than move.
Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by girvo on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:35AM (#18586570)
New York 2140 is an interesting book examining what might happen to those coastal "drowned" cities, especially those buildings caught in the new intertidal zones.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29570143-new-york-2140

Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by starbeast on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:02AM (#18586679)
That looks interesting, I might grab a copy when I have made a dent in my current pile.

Some architects are already proposing to build floating apartments off the piers in Manhattan - https://www.dezeen.com/2018/02/09/pier-40-manhattan-new-york...

Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by girvo on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:39AM (#18586794)
One kind of nice/kind of weird part of it, is that it's mostly interconnected slices-of-life without a huge overarching plot (though that's not entirely true, either) -- that has made it quite good as a pick-up-put-down book: handy, considering it's length!
Re:Venice Anti-Flood Gates Could Wreck Lagoon Ecosystem by cbluth on Monday December 03, 2018 @03:17AM (#18587180)
This is already happening in Amsterdam