“Only man knows natural disasters, so far as he survives them. Nature does not know disasters.” "Katastrophen kennt allein der Mensch, sofern er sie überlebt; die Natur kennt keine Katastrophen.“ from: Max Frisch: Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän. (1979) The German...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughJeJ4LJD0 "Noye's Fludde" is an opera by british composer Britten from 1958 based on the Noah myth. It premiered in England just 5 years after the great North Sea Flood of 1953. UK; 20. Century; Christian; Music, Opera; Noah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoGDJep8uo USA; 20. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Rome
The events on January 31. 1953 constitutes one of the moste severe floodings in the 20. Century in Europe. More than 1.800 lives were lost in the Netherlands, more than 300 in England and Schottland and 28 died in Belgium. As a direct result of the catastrophic events...
Portugal; 20. Century; Architecture
The Thames Barrier was installed in the 1980s to protect London from extreme floods from the North Sea. It's design make it probabyl to most stylish flood protection structure ever and reflects the era of it's planning, the 1970s. The Thames Barrier has been closed...
Soldiers Grove is a village situated along the Kickapoo River in Crawford County, Wisconsin, in the United States. The population was 592 at the 2010 census. The town has become a case study in best practices for managed retreat. In 1978, flooding inundated the...
from the movie 2067 (2020) [Es] ist der Reiz der Ruine, dass hier ein Menschenwerk ganz wie ein Naturprodukt empfunden wird. Dieselben Kräfte, die durch Verwitterung, Ausspülung, Zusammenstürzen, Ansetzen von Vegetation dem Berge seine Gestalt verschaffen, haben sich...
Off the coast of the small japanese island Yonaguni lies a rock formation that has striking ressemblances to remains of submerged cities elsewhere. It was discovered in 1986. But no source from history has so far proven the existence of a city in this location and it...
Probably not the first motion picture about a flooded city, but certainly the most influential one. In the 1927 movie the city is a completely fictious science fiction vesion of a city. It is thus more comparable to the new towns that are currently being planned to...
