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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