The design problem is not producing light. It is producing light that carries a specific identifiable message to somebody several miles away who needs to know exactly which coast they…
The useful question at any causeway is what it is crossing, because the answer determines whether it is always there, sometimes there, or being maintained against something actively trying to…
Everything below follows from the same arrangement: water on three sides or more, and one narrow way in by land. Here are seventeen things that produces.
1. The Spit That…
Coastlines are not eroded evenly. The sea attacks everything and removes softer material faster, which is why almost every coast is a sequence of projections and indentations rather than a…
The useful thing to look at in any harbour is the wall - which direction it faces, how high it stands and where the entrance is - because that tells…
What these have in common is exposure. A headland projects into whatever the ocean is doing, which is why the weather on them is rarely the weather a few miles…