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Floating cities of the future?2019-04-23 - Hayley - in General

The idea of floating cities has been raised at a UN roundtable, as explained in this article. Itstates that this may be a “viable” solution to issues such as climate change and theshortage of affordable housing. The concept is that each sustainable neighbourhood will bebuilt on 156m wide hexagonal blocks and will have communal corners for food productionand docking areas. Oceanix are looking to build the floating structures, designed byarchitect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and they co-convened the meeting along with theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Centre for Ocean Engineering and theExplorers Club, based in the USA.

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