Ideas
“Venice: Semi Natural Islands.” Photograph. Italian Wallpapers. Web. 2 May 2013.
Quote from tours-italy.com: “While the Florentines [from Florence, Italy] were regarded as great thinkers, the Venetians should be regarded as great doer’s. For they alone conquered the malaria-ridden swamps to build a beautiful, prosperous city from nothing.” ~ http://www.tours-italy.com/venice-about-history_of_venice.htm To be a doer, one must be a thinker. The early inhabitants of Venice came up with the ideas to incorporate into the newly founded city, and these ideas serve as the foundation of Venice.
Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Plato. This proverb, meaning that difficult situations inspire ingenious solutions, is the main reason why Venice is special and has different ways than most other European cities. An idea that occurred in Venice was the idea of utilizing the island feature and the sea around it, creating waterways, and making them the main route of transportation. This idea was induced by necessity; it was hard to build roads over muddy, marshy land and the early Venetians needed a different solution.
Another problem inducing more ideas because of necessity was malaria. Since the surrounding water and the waterways going through the city was ocean water and stagnant water, there was an infestation of bugs, especially mosquitos, which brought the epidemic of malaria upon Venice. This spawned new ideas to try to get rid of the quickly-spreading disease.
Necessity is the mother of invention.” – Plato. This proverb, meaning that difficult situations inspire ingenious solutions, is the main reason why Venice is special and has different ways than most other European cities. An idea that occurred in Venice was the idea of utilizing the island feature and the sea around it, creating waterways, and making them the main route of transportation. This idea was induced by necessity; it was hard to build roads over muddy, marshy land and the early Venetians needed a different solution.
Another problem inducing more ideas because of necessity was malaria. Since the surrounding water and the waterways going through the city was ocean water and stagnant water, there was an infestation of bugs, especially mosquitos, which brought the epidemic of malaria upon Venice. This spawned new ideas to try to get rid of the quickly-spreading disease.