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Aug 12, 2021 · Floating cities—with modern amenities and commercially-viable real-estate—have long been a dream of utopias, from Buckminster Fuller’s unrealized proposal for a floating city in Tokyo Bay in...
Listen to the full episode of Tomorrow’s World on floating cities, hosted by Ellie Cosgrave and Britt Wray. Subscribe to the podcast here, which covers everything from artificial intelligence...
Apr 30, 2019 · Dubbed Green Float, the floating city project is expected to be able to withstand natural disasters such as typhoons and tsunamis and could stand for 100 years. The man-made island will be 3 kilometres in diameter, featuring a 1,000 metre tall skyscraper city.
Apr 29, 2022 · The world’s first prototype floating city that adapts to sea level rise has just been unveiled at UN headquarters in New York. OCEANIX Busan, in South Korea, aims to provide breakthrough technology for coastal cities facing land shortages and the threat of climate change.
Oct 4, 2021 · Backed by the UN, US-company Oceanix is leading the charge on large-scale floating human habitations, currently developing what it describes as the "world's first resilient and sustainable...
Jan 28, 2023 · Coastal cities are choked with high-rise buildings and traffic-laden roads, consuming land insufficiently. Synthesizing these problems, architects across the world have proposed a potential...
Jun 5, 2019 · New York, London, Shanghai, Jakarta, Manila, Houston, Miami, Rio de Janeiro — all these cities and more are threatened by potential rises in sea level from climate change. Without dramatic action,...
Jun 17, 2023 · South Korea plans to monitor the energy consumed and waste generated by 300 inhabitants in a city that adapts to the sea level. An artistic recreation of the Oceanix Busan floating city,...
