Floating city

Floating city may refer to:

Floating cities and islands in fiction, the use of artificial floating cities as a speculative fiction trope
Ocean colonization, the theory and practice of building structures to allow humans to live permanently in areas of Earth covered in water
Very large floating structure, the theory and practice of building floating structures on the sea
Seasteading, the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea

Mythical and fictional floating cities

Asgard
Laputa, an island and city in the air in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Shambhala, as conceived by Theosophy, as floating above the Gobi Desert on the etheric plane and being the home of the governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara

Others

Freedom Ship, a concept for a floating city ship proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International
"Floating City" (song), by Tori Amos' 1980s synthpop band
Raft Cities (from the Mortal Engines Quartet of books)
Floating Cities (book) a book by Stephen Wiltshire
Floating City, a 2012 film from Hong Kong

See also

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