In June 2023 massive wildfires in Canada caused air pollution in New York to a scale not known to New Yorkers. Besides the serious health issues the smoke-filled air causes, it also tinted the whole city in a curious sepia like color. The remarkable images, the New...
"Tides" (alternative title "The Colony") is a sci-fi movie from 2021 about a post-apocalyptic world at the moment the first human communities are about to re-settle again. The only territory suitable is a coastal strip that is covered by tides twice a day. The area is...
This is from the New York times in 1959. thanks to Janet Grau for the lead!
What happens to cities when they become half or seasonally flooded? Kim Stanley Robinson draws a picture of an intertidal New York of the future, where New Yorkers still live in high rises and move across the city on boats and bridges. But there is also a jurisdical...
To answer the never-tiring desire for more space for residential buildings along the coasts - nearly 50% of the industrialized world now lives within a kilometer of the coast - floating structures are repeatedly discussed in urbanization discourse. So called VLFS,...
In Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "New York 2140" the flooded New York has all the big city charm and dazzle and fascination it ever had: "From here, the flooded Lower Manhatten lies at their feet like a Super-Venice, awe-inspiring, water-glistening, grand. Their city."...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0 Thanks to Stephan Wagner for the reminder. USA; 20. Century; Christian; film; City: New York