In the US-American 2014 movie Godzilla, the cityscape - in this case the coastal city San Francisco - experiences an interesting reversal of the culture-nature-dichotomy. The city here is not the place of culture and humanity, but the battle site of a fight between...
The Great Sea Wall
Sea Wall in North-Jakarta, Indonesia Sea Wall in Gedong Pompa, Jakarta, Indonesia Sea Wall in Kesennuma, Japan Flood Wall in New Orleans, USA Sea Wall Shanghai, China Saemangeum Seawall South Korea
Looking back through a treehouse window
https://youtu.be/zwUGf6oYgGs Japanese artist Michiari Saito builds treehouses with the citizens of Kesenuma, one of the towns that were severly affected by the 2011 tsunami that caused the Fukushima disaster as well. A protective barrier now separates the twon from...
Yonaguni Monument – The sunken city that is not a city
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...