Terra-Sorta-Firma: Reclaiming the Littoral Gradient

A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world’s continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline.

For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; “reclaiming” land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Terra-Sorta-Firma documents the global extent of reclaime...