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And on the third day He " took together in one place the waters that are under the sky and He named the dry land Earth and the waters Seas "  (Genesis as quoted by Pier Augusto Brecchio in Man and Water ) Frenando Saenz Pedrosa, painting  Easy access to the beaches was such a high priority for then Governor William Donald Schaefer of Maryland that he made "Reach the Beach" a signature piece of his transportation agenda changing the landscape of the Eastern Shore with freeway style divided highways and bypasses around the historic towns. Access road 158 to North Carolina's Outer Banks turns into a parking lot every Saturday when the beach rentals lining up on the shoreline turn. Finding parking near the beaches of Coronado Island or La Jolla in the San Diego area is as impossible as finding a seat in New York's subway during rush-hour. With the summer vacation season and the annual migration towards the ocean fronts in full swing the question arises: Why do p...

The general consensus in the media is that the London fire catastrophe in the Grenfell Tower couldn't happen in the US because of our stricter fire codes which don't allow highly flammable insulation material on facades without fire retardents and certainly no high-rise building with a single exit stairway. While it is true that US standards are stricter on both of those counts, there remain troublesome aspects of the London fire that should give architects, engineers, and building managers involved in multi-family housing pause as they deal with egress and flame spread . Grenfell Tower fire, London There has been a slew of sometimes spectacular facade fires on highrises which may not have had the terrible death toll of the London fire, but certainly caused very hazardous conditions and large property damage. Those fires happened mostly abroad, but not always: The huge fire on the Marina Torch, Dubai, February 21, 2015, the fire on the Grozny-City Tower Hotel, Grozny, Chechnya,...

"Berlin is a city condemned forever to becoming and never to being.") (Karl Scheffler, author of   Berlin: Ein Stadtschicksal , 1910)   The ICE train hurdles at 120 mph through the flat-lands between Goettingen and Berlin. There are extra seats in the coach, Berlin is far enough from most other German centers to make flying faster. After glimpses of Wolfsburg and its Volkswagen factory the most noticeable things to see are wind turbines that stand in clusters on seemingly endless lush green fields. These are the landscapes of East Germany which Helmut Kohl, the German Chancellor who died this week and who had overseen unification, promised to turn into bluehende Landschaften . (Flourishing landscapes).   Germany still has more open space than one thought possible. Then, rather suddenly, there is Berlin, a city and also a state with probably the most turbulent history in all of Europe. Peeling back the layers of this particular onion reveals much of what shaped this contin...