Category: Hydrology
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Get Shaking
One thing of note in Seattle is that it is a city of varied topography, and that this obviously guided the evolution of where settlement occurred, while creating districts and landmark areas (many ending with ‘Hill’). An interesting post related to this topographic urbanism is the seismic stability of my new city. From the Seattle…
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Water and Urban Resilience
The International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) announced an interesting opportunity to explore ”Water and Urban Resilience” through photography. A bit about the project: We sense a large request for inspiration on how to deal with water-related issues from all over the world. Whether it´s lack of water, too much water or unclean water,…
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Lost Rivers
I am eagerly awaiting the Lost Rivers Documentary to come to a local theater, in the interim, there’s some great information on their website of the six cities covered in the film, including London, Seoul, Yonkers, Brescia, Toronto, and Montreal. Lost Rivers – OFFICIAL TRAILER from Catbird Productions on Vimeo. Once upon a time, in…
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Historical Waterways
My fascination with historical mapping, particularly that focused on hydrology is a well known fact. A great resource spotted via Seeing Landscapes and Watershed+ gives a link to an older map of Manhattan published in the NY Times. ‘When There Was Water, Water Everywhere‘ looks at the 1874 map prepared by Col. Egbert L. Viele,…