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The city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan was founded by the Mexica people in 1325. Constructed in the middle of Lake Texcoco, the Aztecs first developed what is...Read more

The development of Manhattan’s shoreline was greatly influ- enced by population and industrial growth along the Hudson River Valley. The first major land reclamation project...Read more

The Netherlands has a long and well documented history of land reclamation projects dating back to the Middle Ages. Farmers in the 11th century settled...Read more

Following the city’s re-establishment as Norway’s capital in 1814, Christiania grew substantially, particularly during world war years. During this time, the waterfront was expanded to...Read more

Immediately south of Copenhagen, Kalvebod comprises much of the western half of Amager island. An area of reclaimed seabed, Kalvebod was originally dammed and drained...Read more

Formerly surrounded by water on all sides, Victoria Island, Lagos state’s financial centre and most expensive residen- tial district, became merged with the Lekki Peninsula...Read more

For centuries, the Lenape inhabited the area at the conflu- ence of the Hudson and East Rivers. In the early 17th century Dutch settlers built...Read more

Located in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California, Treasure Island is a constructed island created between 1936 - 1937. The island...Read more

Prior to the Gold Rush in 1848, San Francisco was a small community of a few hundred people, named Yerba Buena Cove. As the population...Read more

False Creek was an important hub for the lumber industry in Vancouver. By 1891, six out of eight saw mills were located in False Creek...Read more