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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

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

Located between the straits separating Malaysia and Sin- gapore, Forest City is a proposed 1,350 ha Chinese-built community to be developed within the Straits of...Read more

Steep slopes and limited developable land within its territori- al geography have historically driven the extension of Hong Kong’s shoreline. Land reclamation projects can be...Read more

First occupied by the indigenous Cadigal People 14,000 years before European settlement, the area now known as Barangaroo began as significant hunting and fishing grounds...Read more

Rio de Janeiro was originally settled on Morro de Castelo, a large hill, for its strategic vantage points over the sea and land. As the...Read more

The Port of Rotterdam has a long and ingenious history of land reclamations projects aimed at facilitating the continued development of one of the largest,...Read more