In a message dated 7/29/99 11:41:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> The plague of rooftop HVAC units that has swept through New York is absent
in
> Venice.
But all the houses seem to have little rooftop platforms -- I guess to sit on
in the evening (with flowers n' stuff). I saw a picture of Venice in an
earlier century and they seemed to have them then, too. I wondered as I
drifted past if there were design guidelines for them -- they seemed too
varied -- but everything ELSE about Venice is carefully regulated, I suspect.
Mary