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…
The reason night arrivals go wrong is not the darkness. It is that the desk is closed, the shop is shut, the information point is unstaffed and the transport is…
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…
None of this is about keeping children occupied. It is about designing the trip differently in the first place, which is where nearly all the difference is made. Here are…