Daily Archives: September 8, 2009

How it all began…

How can one imagine that New York was once a city with a beaver on its seal? Anyone living in the 21st century has to put-up a very different mindset to try to understand what was happening on the island … Continue reading

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Mannahatta/Manhattan

The Mannahatta Project is one of the best projects about geography and cities that was ever conceived. It is visually shocking and fascinating.  It is such a dramatical difference between NYC 400 years ago and now, that the contemporary population the the island … Continue reading

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