Ready to give up land for a city life on the sea? Floating cities, long the domain of libertarian dreamers and nomadic cultures, could form the basis for a more sustainable living approach that uses ...

This town is coming like a ghost town,” The Specials once warned[^1]. Unfortunately for the designers of the sort of floating cities we see increasingly rendered in future-focused marketing materials, ...

The city, made up of interconnected platforms, will generate its own power and clean water. On Tuesday its designer released mockups of how the city may look. Busan is South Korea's second-largest ...

Countries like Kiribati, a nation of low-lying coral atolls in the Pacific, will likely disappear entirely. This is why Kiribati is among the countries to have explored the possibility of artificial ...

The project's designers envision a floodproof city that produces its own food and water. They expect to fully construct the prototype in Busan, a large port city, in 2025. More than two years ago, a ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The United Nations is considering floating cities as a way to battle the threat climate change poses on coastal cities. A UN-Habitat roundtable on April 3 discussed how floating ...

In 2007, entrepreneur Marc Collins Chen became the minister of tourism in his native French Polynesia. One of his first tasks was to assess whether sea level rise was a threat to the group of 118 ...

Imagine living in a sustainable city that not only produced its own food and energy but also withstood natural disasters — all while resting out on the ocean. Although it sounds like something ...

In a quiet, shady street in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, Koen Olthuis and the design team at Waterstudio are changing the world. From this deceptively nondescript headquarters, Waterstudio is designing ...

“Coastal cities are literally the interface between man and nature. That is where it is happening,” spoke Marc Collins, the former tourism minister of French Polynesia and founder of Oceanix as we sat ...