What if we added the equivalent of over 1300 football fields to the tip of Manhattan? This was the proposal of a recent op-ed in The New York Times - increasing the size of the borough by about 12% in order to mitigate two of its most pressing problems. There’s evidence from all over the world that doing this can be a useful technique for crowded ocean-side cities. But the process to do so - reclaiming land from the ocean - is rife with potential downsides. So is this a proportional response to gigantic problems? Or a zany harebrained scheme that’ll do more harm than good?

Further reading:

The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/op...

JustinTools.com
https://www.justintools.com/unit-conv...

Institute of Island Studies
http://www.urbanislandstudies.org/UIS...

Int’l Assoc. of Dredging Companies
https://www.iadc-dredging.com/subject...

Tomorrow.City
https://tomorrow.city/a/reclaiming-la...
https://tomorrow.city/a/reclaiming-la...

Curbed
https://boston.curbed.com/2017/5/16/1...
https://ny.curbed.com/2019/3/14/18265...

Hispanic American Historical Review
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...[…]and_Development_in_Mexico%27s_Lake_Texcoco_Basin_1910-1950

ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...

World Atlas
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/c...

New York Public Library
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...

Science Daily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...

The BBC
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...

CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/humpback...

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