Paris and Île-de-France … the Retrofuture map.
Après moi, le déluge … mixing up 66m of sea level rise with this 1740 map… Environs De Paris, from @david_rumsey_maps.
If you can spend hours looking at antique maps, look this one up on their web site. It is stunning in its detail and accuracy.
The poster is available for purchase.
The Retrofuture Series is a time machine–the maps combine elements of the past, the present and the future.
The base maps are rooted in the past–vintage and antique maps that show places very different from our current world.
The hillshade effects are contemporary, and the modern world can be seen shadowing the old maps–freeway embankments, dams and reservoirs, and a variety of earthworks.
The 218′ of sea level rise is the future. When all the world’s ice sheets have melted, this is what our world will look like–flooded coastal cities, valleys, and plains. This is a world thousands of years in the future, that none of us will live to experience.
All sea level rise depicted in these maps is based on estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
