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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

With a waterfront of 72 km, Dubai is the largest city in the UAE. It was established at the mouth of the Dubai Creek in...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

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

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

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