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They made themselves shine through the plunder | Sign up for CuriosityStream and get Nebula for for free at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Forgotten City review by Renata Price: https://kotaku.com/despite-hype-former-skyrim-mod-the-forgotten-city-is-k-1847644698 Sources: A Geoarchaeological Reading of the City-Overlap-City Phenomenon in the Lower Yellow River Floodplain: A Case Study of Kaifeng City, China: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/4/1029/htm Geoarchaeological evidence of the AD 1642 Yellow River flood that destroyed Kaifeng, a former capital of dynastic China: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-60169-1 Born from the ashes: Seattle, a city built atop itself: https://www.history101.com/born-from-the-ashes-seattle-a-city-built-atop-itself/ When Water Rises: A Journey Through Turkey’s Drowning Landscape: https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/when-water-rises-journey-through-turkeys-drowning-landscape/ Inside The Forgotten Chinese Cities Destroyed By The Three Gorges Dam: https://www.fastcompany.com/3029421/inside-the-forgotten-chinese-cities-destroyed-by-the-three-gorges-dam Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America: http://www.clui.org/newsletter/spring-2005/immersed-remains-towns-submerged-america The Endless Robbing of Native American Graves: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/07/08/will-mass-robbery-native-american-graves-ever-end/?utm_source=reddit.com Hoover Dam Construction: Boulder Dam (Part I) (1931): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khD_ryWxfMg&t=1811s Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn (2021) War, Politics, and Society in Early Modern China 900-1795 by Peter Lorge (2005) Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time (2013, Chris Holt) Visual Media used: The Forgotten City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Remember Me, Google Earth Studio, Blade Runner, PBS News Hour Music used (chronologically): The Girl (Max Payne 3), Run (Hotline Miami 2), Let Us Live, Since We Must Die, Extreme Justice is Extreme Injustice, The Result Justifies The Deed (The Forgotten City), Dogsong (Undertale), We Are But Dust and Shadow (The Forgotten City), Remembrance of Stars (The Forgotten City- MOD), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Titan (Hyper Light Drifter), Rise to the Light (Remember Me), Max- Panama (Max Payne 3), Life is Long, Life is Short (The Forgotten City) Description Credit: “Resist” by Brandy Nālani McDougall Thumbnail Credit:https://twitter.com/HotCyder Additional footage provided by Getty Additional sound effects by Epidemic Sound

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Sid

I'm reminded of how in Beast Machines you had multiple layers of Cybertronian civilization built on top of each other in layers.

Connor Swenke

What a wonderful essay and a fantastic way to start my work day. You rock, Jacob. Thanks a ton

Shot_Trip

I just keep coming back to Discworld. Ankh-Morpork, the largest city in the setting, is described as being built on itself, over and over, since it's built in marshland. Dwarves who live in the city often unearth new living spaces by plunging the basements.

Anonymous

This reminded me of discourse on Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane disproportionately affected lower income, POC neighborhoods. I'd be interested in seeing if property values were lower due to being below/at sea level initially, and how that warped the communities primarily affected. To tie it in with the essay, those communities were rebuilt. 16 years later, I wonder who lives on that risky land.

choopy

You're the best. Wow.

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