ABSTRACT
The multiplicity of landscapes results from the complex and multidimensional interplay between land and water. Over time, the processes of land appropriation and the ways in which both land and water have been modified and used have contributed to the widespread misconception that they exist as separate entities. Misconception that is, for example, well exemplified by the very concept of the coastline: an oxymoron that attempts to confine within a single line what is instead a transitional, dynamic, and fluid space. Moreover, this perceived separation has been reinforced – both physically and conceptually – over millennia of urbanisation through a range of territorial and local interventions, including river vaulting, canalisation, land reclamation, the construction of irrigation, drainage, and sewage systems, as well as dams, pumps, embankments, and other infrastructure designed to create a sharp divide between land and water.
