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Description: What if we added the equivalent of over 1300 football fields to the tip of Manhattan? This was the proposal of a recent op-ed in The New York Times - increasing the size of the borough by about 12% in order to mitigate two of its most pressing problems. There’s evidence from all over the world that doing this can be a useful technique for crowded ocean-side cities. But the process to do so - reclaiming land from the ocean - is rife with potential downsides. So is this a proportional response to gigantic problems? Or a zany harebrained scheme that’ll do more harm than good? Further reading: The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opinion/eric-adams-manhattan-expand.html#commentsContainer JustinTools.com justintools.com/unit-conversion/area.php?k1=acres&k2=football-fields Institute of Island Studies urbanislandstudies.org/UIS-1-Grydehoj-PublicSpace.pdf Int’l Assoc. of Dredging Companies iadc-dredging.com/subject/techniques/land-reclamation Tomorrow.City tomorrow.city/a/reclaiming-land-from-the-sea-a-solution-to-climate-change-or-an-even-bigger tomorrow.city/a/reclaiming-land-from-the-sea-a-solution-to-climate-change-or-an-even-bigger Curbed boston.curbed.com/2017/5/16/15640430/boston-infill-projects-reclamation ny.curbed.com/2019/3/14/18265630/de-blasio-10-billion-plan-expand-lower-manhattan-east-river Hispanic American Historical Review researchgate.net/publication/261966900_The_Lands_with_Which_We_Shall_Strugg[…]and_Development_in_Mexico%27s_Lake_Texcoco_Basin_1910-1950 ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/land-reclamation The Guardian theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/02/cities-from-the-sea-the-true-cost-of-reclaimed-land-asia-malaysia-penang-dubai World Atlas worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-reclaimed-land.html New York Public Library digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/51172280-0fdc-0134-8fef-00505686a51c/book?parent=cf768fc0-0fd9-0134-6bb1-00505686a51c#page/5/mode/2up Science Daily sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210708112548.htm The BBC bbc.com/future/article/20161101-the-benefits-and-downsides-of-building-into-the-sea CBS News cbsnews.com/news/humpback-whales-nyc-return-new-york-harbor-comeback Subscribe to Cheddar on YouTube: chdr.tv/subscribe Connect with Cheddar! On Facebook: chdr.tv/facebook On Twitter: chdr.tv/twitter On Instagram: chdr.tv/instagram On Cheddar.com: chdr.tv/cheddar