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Moving a city to save it!

The Radical Plan to Save the Fastest Sinking City in the World Many of our coastal cities are imperiled, but none have plotted an escape quite as audacious as Jakarta’s I. The capital of catastrophe In the 17th and 18th centuries, European workers flocked by the thousands to a faraway colonial Dutch port later to be known as Jakarta. The lure of the tough, six-month ocean journey was easy enough to see: seemingly limitless island forests of clove and nutmeg, spices...