The Plan To Literally Expand New York City - Cheddar Explains

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 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/op... JustinTools.com https://www.justintools.com/unit-conv... Institute of Island Studies http://www.urbanislandstudies.org/UIS... Int’l Assoc. of Dredging Companies https://www.iadc-dredging.com/subject... Tomorrow.City https://tomorrow.city/a/reclaiming-la... https://tomorrow.city/a/reclaiming-la... Curbed https://boston.curbed.com/2017/5/16/1... https://ny.curbed.com/2019/3/14/18265... Hispanic American Historical Review https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...[…]and_Development_in_Mexico%27s_Lake_Texcoco_Basin_1910-1950 ScienceDirect https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/... The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/cities/20... World Atlas https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/c... New York Public Library https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i... Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... The BBC https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20... CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/humpback... Subscribe to Cheddar on YouTube: http://chdr.tv/subscribe Connect with Cheddar! On Facebook: http://chdr.tv/facebook On Twitter: http://chdr.tv/twitter On Instagram: http://chdr.tv/instagram On Cheddar.com: http://chdr.tv/cheddar