Editorial selection
Cities under pressure
What happens to a working city when the ground, the water, the fire or the disease arrives — and which parts of it hold.
7 Experiences Chosen by Richseen Originals. An editorial selection, not a ranking: nothing here is ordered by anything the corpus does not record.
Cities under pressure
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REX-004
The Last Day of Pompeii
- Environment
- History
- Ancient
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-013
Lisbon 1755: Earthquake, Fire, Tsunami
- Environment
- History
- Early Modern
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-040
London 1666: The Great Fire
Urban fire / wind / building fabric and reconstruction
- History
- Human Systems
- Early Modern
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_disaster_with_directional_fire_scenario
- Subjects
- Great Fire of London
- urban fire
- wind
- firefighting
- rebuilding
- Categories
- urban history
- disaster
- architecture
- infrastructure
- Ways in
- Witness
- Investigate
- Fire System
- What it does
- fourteen-state fire-and-rebuilding timeline
- directional wind and fire field
- persistent response priorities
- evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-041
San Francisco 1906: The City That Moved
Earthquake / fire / lifelines, displacement and urban recovery
- Human Systems
- Science
- Modern
- North America
- Historical Reconstruction
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_disaster_with_directional_coupled_city_model
- Subjects
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake
- San Andreas Fault
- urban fire
- water infrastructure
- displacement and recovery
- Categories
- earth science
- urban history
- disaster
- infrastructure
- Ways in
- Witness
- Investigate
- City System
- What it does
- fourteen-state earthquake-to-recovery timeline
- ground, water, fire and displacement model
- persistent civic priorities
- evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-021
Florence 1348: The Black Death
- History
- Human Systems
- Medieval
- Europe
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-023
Angkor: When the Water System Failed
- Environment
- Human Systems
- Medieval
- Asia
- Historical Reconstruction
- System Exploration
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-067
Venice: How a City Floats
A city held above a lagoon by ground, water, maintenance and collective choices
- Environment
- Human Systems
- Contemporary
- Europe
- Scientific Simulation
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- venetian_lagoon_ground_foundation_water_and_adaptation_system_with_explicit_float_myth_flood_component_and_mose_tradeoff_boundaries
- Subjects
- Venetian Lagoon landforms and tidal exchange
- timber pile ground improvement and masonry foundations
- canals, cisterns, drainage and urban maintenance
- subsidence, relative sea level and compound high water
- MOSE barriers and lagoon adaptation
- Categories
- urban engineering
- coastal systems
- architectural history
- climate adaptation
- environmental stewardship
- Ways in
- Lagoon Trace
- Foundation Lab
- Flood Audit
- What it does
- fourteen-state lagoon-threshold-to-adaptation sequence
- qualitative load spread, timber density, soil stiffness, waterlogging and maintenance comparison
- tide, surge, relative sea level, elevation, drainage and barrier-operation separation
- persistent foundation, flood, intervention and stewardship evidence trace
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)