Reclaimed land

WHS or parts thereof which were built on reclaimed land (reclaimed from water, marshes and other uninhabitable circumstances). Not including the more specific Polders and Artificial Islands, which have their own connections.

Human Activity

Connected Sites

Site Rationale Link
Amsterdam Canal Ring "This was a longterm programme that involved extending the city by draining the swampland using a system of canals in concentric arcs and filling in the intermediate spaces." (AB ev)
Butrint "In 44 BC Butrint became a Roman colony and expanded considerably on reclaimed marshland, primarily to the south across the Vivari Channel, where an aqueduct was built" (OUV Brief synthesis)
Colonies of Benevolence "Over a seven-year period, almost 80 square kilometres of wastelands, domestic territory considered unfit for settlement, were reclaimed in Colonies." (OUV)
Melaka and George Town George Town: "There is also a large harbour area, partly on reclaimed land" (AB ev)
Rio de Janeiro "as well as the extensive designed landscapes on reclaimed land along Copacabana Bay" (OUV Brief synthesis)
Saloum Delta "All the shell mounds built up over a 2,000 year-long cultural process have formed a physical structure of stable islets and reclaimed land within the Saloum Delta." (OUV)
St. Petersburg "the metamorphosis of an inhospitable coastal area into a superb city" (AB ev), "From 1703 to 1725, Peter the Great lifted from a landscape of marshes, peat bogs and rocks, architectural styles in stone and marble for a capital, St. Petersburg, which he wished to be the most beautiful city" (crit i OUV)
Thang Long "It was constructed on the remains of a Chinese fortress dating from the 7th century, on drained land reclaimed from the Red River Delta in Hanoi." (OUV Brief synthesis)
Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai "The ambitious Backbay Reclamation Scheme of the 1920s, which covers 553 acres of reclaimed land, is where the Art Deco buildings of Mumbai were constructed in the 1930s and 1940s" (AB ev)

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