How Catastrophes Have Shaped The Modern City
Atlantic
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10/1/20
“Calamity forces people to ask fundamental questions: What is a community for? How is it put together? What are its basic needs? How should we provide them?”
Why New England Forests Are Criss-Crossed With Stone Walls
Atlas Obscura
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5/4/18
“The walls weren’t built in the forest but in and around farms. By the middle of the 19th century, New England was over 70 percent deforested by settlers, a rolling landscape of smallholdings as far as the eye could see. But by the end of the century, industrialization and large-scale farms led to thousands of fields being abandoned, to begin a slow process of reforestation.”