Why we stopped making land

Short summary

Around eight percent of land in America's major coastal cities was underwater in the 1890s and has since been reclaimed, including sites under major airports like Newark, Logan, and SFO. The article references a piece by Zigmund Forrest and Maxwell Tabarrok in Works in Progress examining why land reclamation efforts have largely halted. The provided excerpt is truncated and lacks substantive analysis.

• •~8% of major US coastal city land was reclaimed from water since the 1890s
• •Reclaimed land includes sites under Newark, Logan, and SFO airports
• •Article references Works in Progress piece on why land reclamation stopped

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