Environmental

Borneo Sporenburg occupy two peninsulas in the eastern part of the Amsterdam. Once an active shipping dock, it now includes 2500 low-rise dwelling units master-planned...Read more

San Francisco was first settled by Europeans in 1769. It gained its significance as a major economic hub in 1849 due to the discovery of...Read more

Cinta Costera is a major road improvement project located on the shores of Panama City. It is a bypass route construct- ed to aid the...Read more

Initially an anchorage for imperial envoys traveling to China, Kobe (formerly Hyogo) has a long history of international maritime activity. During the late Medieval era,...Read more

After enduring frequent land-based attacks from Germanic Lombards, the Doge founded the city of Venice in 810 AD when he moved his capital from nearby...Read more

By the mid 1600s, Stockholm outgrew the three islands it originally inhabited. As such, the city walls were dismantled and the city was expanded both...Read more

Formerly large tidal flats populated by fishermen, Jeongwang Dong was reclaimed as an extension of Siheung City with segregated residential and commercial-industrial districts. Several years...Read more

Founded in 1718, “La Nouvelle-Orleans” was established by the French along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River. Here, sedimentation from the Mississippi created natural...Read more

As the only large settlement in the Maldives, a nation com- prised of 28 natural atolls and 1194 islands, Malé plays a crit- ical role...Read more

In the early 1900s, it was decided that the Netherlands’ central water body, the Zuiderzee, would be reclaimed out of growing needs for flood protection...Read more