tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203021184953768748.post4042369069963315983..comments2023-06-19T06:15:06.469-07:00Comments on SuperSpatial: 005. The city destroyed by its own beautyKosmogradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08320899872288614980noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7203021184953768748.post-78733273868225424382007-10-22T02:36:00.000-07:002007-10-22T02:36:00.000-07:00Just an observation, but both Venice and Bath are ...Just an observation, but both Venice and Bath are cities whose <I>raisons d'etre</I> have disappeared. <BR/><BR/>Venice was build on trade between Europe and the Levant, and has been in decline ever since the Portuguese found a quicker, cheaper way to move the same commodities - around the Cape of Good Hope direct from India. Bath was a resort town built on specific medical ideas and social structures that have both disappeared. <BR/><BR/>In other words, the reasons why both the (wealth that paid for the) beauty and the population were there in the first place have gone. That's the real problem, not the tourists that fill the vacuum...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com