Urban

A port since the 5th century AD, Jakarta was claimed as a colony of the Dutch between 1610 and 1942, a period in which the...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

Sandwiched between the Mediterranean Sea and the Leb- anon Mountains, Beirut is a site of successive Phoenician, Roman, and Ottoman ports, Beirut has a rich...Read more

Formerly located outside of the city of London, the town of North Woolwich once existed in low lying marshlands along the Thames River. Following 1844...Read more

Formerly an open expanse of Biscayne Bay, the stretch of water between mainland Miami and Miami Beach was linked in 1913 by a 4 km...Read more

Originally one of the most productive wetlands of the Great Lakes, the marshes at the mouth of the Don River were rap- idly degraded by...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

Jurong Island, located off the coast of Singapore, is a 32 km2 island constructed through the amalgamation of sev- en original islands during the 1970s...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