Tag: Land

  • Nation & World

    Invading Inner Mongolia’s painful past

    Harvard graduate student Sakura Christmas is drawn to a tumultuous time in the history of northern China, when invasion, migration, and culture change altered the lives of traditional people forever.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Principles of Brownfield Regeneration: Cleanup, Design, and Reuse of Derelict Land

    Professor of Landscape Architecture Niall Kirkwood and co. argue that brownfields — idle property typically contaminated — are central to a sustainable planning strategy of thwarting sprawl, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and more.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    And quiet flows the Don at Pusey

    The Harvard Map Collection presents its fall exhibition, “From the Amazon to the Volga: The Cartographic Representation of Rivers,” which opened Wednesday (Sept. 24). For centuries, cartographers have wrestled with the difficulties of depicting rivers, and in the process they have devised many ingenious ways of answering the challenge — from streambed profiles to bird’s-eye…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Island nation president plans for extinction

    The leader of the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati laid out an extraordinary plan Monday (Sept. 22) that would scatter his people through the nations of the world as rising sea levels submerge the islands they have called home for centuries.

    4 minutes