Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. One involves creating new land from sea or riverbeds ("landfill"); the other refers to restoring an area to a more natural state (such as after pollution, deforestation or salination) have made it unusable, although it's the former definition for which the phrase is most widely used.
Land reclamation can be the creation of new land where there was once water. Notable examples in the West inclu...
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Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. One involves creating new land from sea or riverbeds ("landfill"); the other refers to restoring an area to a more natural state (such as after pollution, deforestation or salination) have made it unusable, although it's the former definition for which the phrase is most widely used.
Land reclamation can be the creation of new land where there was once water. Notable examples in the West include parts of New Orleans (which is partially built on land that was once swamp); much of San Francisco's 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 major part of the city center is built on reclaimed land); the Cape Town foreshore; the Chicago shoreline; the Manila Bay shoreline; Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts; Battery Park City, Manhattan; Liberty State Park, Jersey City; the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium; the southwestern residential area...
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