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The colonists found the city’s unfamiliar environment so unsettling that they demolished the dikes and dams that managed the lakes, draining the valley and establishing what would become one of the most populous cities in the world on the soft soil of a lakebed.
Deep Time Sickness | NOEMA
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The rocks are viscous, but only in the same way that glass is. It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downward under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top. That is the sort of “flow” we are talking about.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
As former Maryland governorParris Glendening has said: "We cannot fool ourselves-or the public-any longer: we can no longer build our way out of our highway congestion problems. It is not an environmentally or financially feasible solution."'
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
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