Floating cities

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)

ערים צפות

Name (Latin)

Floating cities

Name (Arabic)

مدن عائمة

Wikidata: Q7076132

Library of congress: sh2017004257

Sources of Information

Work cat.: 2017040828: Pamphlet architecture 36, 2019:CIP data view (concept of floating cities, a field of inquiry that is gaining increasing relevance and urgency with the impending reality of climate change)
ArchDaily, (via Internet), Mar. 17, 2016(several floating cities proposed as visions of future architecture in the twentieth-century; with climate change raising sea levels, there may be climate refugees in the future)
Daily mail (via Internet), Jan. 17, 2017(plans for the world's first 'floating city'; French Polynesia is interested in the project as the area is at risk from rising sea levels)
Harvard gazette (via Internet), Mar. 19, 2013(vision of floating cities; African Water Cities Project envisions a future in which modular coastal dwelling as built on platforms stacked with flotation devices)
National Science Foundation website, Aug. 28, 2017(under Awards/Coastal Ocean Space Utilization (COSU) Symposium: concepts frequently introduced pertain to such topics as artificial islands, floating cities, etc.; projects comprising the coastal infrastructure)
NTRL database, Aug. 28, 2017(keyword: Floating cities)
Phys.org (via Internet), Aug. 12, 2016(Architecture students, faculty design floating cities in response to climate change; in response to rising sea levels, urban habitats could rise and float)
PS (via JSTOR), January 2013:p. 34 (if the problem is rising sea levels, then adaptation might recommend constructing new flood defences or even floating cities)

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