For anyone who hasn't seen it, the hilarious and thought-provoking movie "Where To Invade Next" opens with a portrait of Italian working life. Here's a link to a full-length copy (probably bootleg, so support it elsewhere wherever you can).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j7tuwH346Y Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E. Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <http://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling Piano <https://www.ronnewmanpiano.com> Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com> On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 11:35 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, nice. The Guardian has an article about Venice too > > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/06/venice-losing-fight-with-tourism-and-flooding > > -Jochen > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> > Date: 1/6/19 23:08 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > Cc: Wedtech <[email protected]>, John DiRuggiero <[email protected]>, Fabio > Carrera <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city > center | News | santafenewmexican.com > > And more importantly, Fabio's H3 palace in Giudecca > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXk6EKWIBrZ-thmvvL5ACBpKbpVQssexJTcq4zKWevw/edit > > and the Birraria La Corte > > http://birrarialacorte.it/ > > near his shared office! > > -- Owen > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There are far too many tourists in Venice, and the cruise ships are >> monsters that destroy the city. Clearly a step in the right direction. >> >> Venice itself is quite beautiful. A lot of Vivaldi concertos, Cicchetti >> bars, and Vaporetti stations (a Vaporetto is a kind of water bus). Venice >> is famous for Gondolas and "Aperol Spritz". A unique city. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondola >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spritz_Veneziano >> >> -Jochen >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Owen Densmore <[email protected]> >> Date: 1/6/19 18:33 (GMT+01:00) >> To: Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>, Fabio Carrera < >> [email protected]>, John DiRuggiero <[email protected]>, Wedtech < >> [email protected]> >> Subject: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center >> | News | santafenewmexican.com >> >> The SF New Mexican has this interesting article on how Venice is trying >> to handle their overwhelming tourism. >> >> >> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/venice-to-charge-day-trippers-for-access-to-city-center/article_60b81701-d063-585e-b3e9-8c2cd4d89663.html >> >> This is just the first of several ideas to manage tourism in Venice. >> Managing large tour ships already has started, for example. Managing AirBnB >> is another in the works. >> >> From the article: >> >> Official estimate that as many as 30 million people visit Venice each >> year, with about one-fifth spending at least one night in the historic >> center of the city, which excludes islands in the lagoon and a mainland. >> >> But that means the other four-fifths are day trippers? Whoa! >> >> Fabio: any others? And is focusing on day trippers (with no overnight >> stay) helpful? >> >> -- Owen >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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