Mural in Bremen Neustadt advertising the local beer company Beck's. The building and the brewery are directly adjacent to a dike that is in urgent need of renovation and elevation. A building at Hongkongstraße in Hamburg's harbour district adorned with japanese style...
This is from the New York times in 1959. thanks to Janet Grau for the lead!
Continental Shelf Station was an attempt at creating an environment in which people could live and work on the sea floor. Precontinent has been used to describe the set of projects to build an underwater "village" carried out by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team in...
The british movie "Captain Nemo and the underwater city" by James Hill picks up the themes and main character Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's famous novel and the sucessfull 1954 Disney movie on the same material. While the earlier US-movie develops further the theme...
The book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Testament discusses at large an ecological crisis around 600 BCE in the so called "Fertile Crescent" (a region encompassing today's southern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, and parts of Turkey and Iran)....
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...
Like no other movie Roland Emmerich's blockbuster made extensive use of the iconology of cities, and most of all of the most iconic of them all: New York! In a very clever way, the advertisment company also adopted this strategy to various localities, asking the local...
English-American painter Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) created a series of five images depicting the rise and the destruction of an imaginary coastal city. The series is entitled "The Course of Empire". Above, the fourth painting depicts the catastrophe and destruction of...
Flooding in Guangxi. Images provided by Damien Manspeaker (@too_much_yogurt/Instagram)
https://player.vimeo.com/video/328744654?h=dbce188316 Athens based artist collective Latent Community produced this wonderful film about the story of Kallio in Fokida, Greece, a village that was expropriated in 1969 and was covered in 1981 by the waters of the...
