Saturday, December 22, 2018
'Land Reclamation\r'
'Notable examples in the West include large move of the Nether drop offs, parts of New Orleans(which is partially reinforced on land that was once swamp); practically of San Franciscos waterfront has been reclaimed from the San Francisco Bay; Mexico City(which is situated at the former site of Lake Texcoco); Helsinki (of which the study part of the city center is construct on reclaimed land); the Cape Townforeshore; the stops shoreline; the Manila Bay shoreline; Back Bay, Boston, milliampere; Battery Park City, Manhattan; Liberty give tongue to Park, Jersey City; the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium; the southwestern residential bea in Brest, Belarus, the polders of the Netherlands; and the Toronto Islands, Leslie Street Spit, and the waterfront in Toronto.In the Far East, Japan, the southerly Chinese cities of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau, the Philippine capitalManila, and the city-state of Singapore, where land is in short supply, are also renowned for their efforts on land reclamation. One of the early and famous project was the Praya Reclamation Scheme, which added 50 to 60 acres (240,000 m2) of land in 1890 during the second phase of construction. It was one of the roughly ambitious projects ever taken during the compound Hong Kong era. 1] Some 20% of land in the Tokyo Bay area has been reclaimed.Monaco and the British territory of Gibraltar are also expanding due to land reclamation. The city of Rio de Janeiro was largely built on reclaimed land. Artificial islands are an example of land reclamation. Creating an artificial island is an dear(predicate) and risky undertaking. It is often considered in places that are densely populated and flat land is scarce. Kansai International airport (in Osaka) and Hong Kong International Airport are examples where this process was deemed necessary. The Palm Islands, The man and hotel Burj al-Arab offDubai in the United Arab Emirates are new(prenominal) examples of artificial islands.\r\n'
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