Design

When Borders Melt

An Italian project maps how climate change is now shifting the nation’s boundaries.

A relief model created by Italian Limes of Mount Similaun, showing the line of the border at time of construction — A relief model created by Italian Limes of Mount Similaun, showing the line of the border at time of constructionDelfino Sisto Legnani/Italian Limes

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By Feargus O'Sullivan

January 13, 2017 at 4:03 PM EST

Throughout this week, CityLab is running a series on borders—both real and imagined—and what draws so many of us to places on the edge.

European borders have proved over history to be wiggly things, and few have wiggled more that Italy’s.

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Before it’s here, it’s on the Bloomberg Terminal