Coastal land reclamation is one of the primary forms of global urban expansion. China is home to the world’s largest reclamation projects, where over the last 50 years it has reclaimed 13,380 km2 of land and expanded it coastline by almost 2,000 kilometres. This atlas showcases a range of coastal urban developments built on reclaimed land and how they change over time.
Research Lead:
Fadi Masoud
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Director - Platform for Resilient Urbanism - Centre for Landscape Research
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - University of Toronto
Collaborators:
Brent D. Ryan
Associate Professor of Urban Design and Public Policy
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xi (Colleen) Qiu
PhD Candidate
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Assistants
Xinhui Li, Caner Oktem, Ricardo Jnani Gonzalez, Xhulio Binjaku, Sean Phillips, Hadi El-Shayeb, Qiwei Song,
Shikha Jagwani, Michael Wideman, Hillary DeWildt, Ambika Pharma, Isaac Seah, Louisa Kennett,
Hilary Todhunter, Joshua Chua, Luis Bendezu Carbjal
Purchase Book:
Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient
Published by Actar
Project funded by Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab
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