>>16131143

>cities built on swamps

Cities and Swamp Settling: decolonizing wetlands

Rod Giblett

https://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Giblett.html

II EUROPEAN CITIES AND WETLANDS

1. Paris: or Lutetia, 'the filthy marsh'

1. London: The 'nether world' of 'the city of dreadful night'

1. Venice: 'A tropical marshland, steaming, monstrous, rank'

1. Berlin: 'A dingy city in a marsh'

1. Hamburg: 'This marshy, watery city'

1. St Petersburg: 'Marooned on the Neva's marsh delta'

III NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND WETLANDS

1. New York: Set in 'a mosquito-infested swamp'

1. Boston: and the Back Bay Fens

1. New Orleans: The swamp is no place for a city

1. Toronto: 'Set in malarial lakeside swamps'

1. Washington: 'A discouraging site bordered by a swamp'

1. Chicago: 'Built in the midst of a great level swamp'

https://stolenhistory.net/threads/cities-built-on-swamps.4778/

"and Budapest, Berlin, London, Washington and Moscow were built on swamps"

>>16131230

Frogs are like the swans of the swamp.

Swim through it, stay clean.