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…
Every spring is an intersection between water moving underground and a surface that happens to be in the way. The rock decides where, and everything else follows. Here are fourteen.…
A built viewpoint is an argument about what matters in a landscape. Somebody chose the position, the height and the direction, and everybody who stands there afterwards sees what they…
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 understand is that a crossing point is not a convenience but a bottleneck. Every route in a region funnels toward the few places the river can…