If waking up to a sea breeze and panoramic ocean views is your idea of heaven, you might consider moving to a floating city.
A group of marine biologists, nautical engineers and environmentalists plans on building a floating city, or “seastead” as soon as in 2020. The group has settled on the design and believes semi-independent cities would be the perfect place to try new modes of government and agricultural methods, for example, in a bid to work out how to tackle the world’s problems.
The Seasteading Institute claims that building floating cities is the first step to testing new ideas on how to feed the hungry, cure the sick, clean the atmosphere and enrich the poor, for example. It plans to build floating islands to host aquaculture farms, floating healthcare, medical research islands, and sustainable energy powerhouses.
The square and pentagon platforms would measure 164 ft (50metres) in length and they would have 164 ft-tall (50 metre) sides to protect buildings and residents. The platforms will be made from reinforced concrete and support three-storey buildings such as apartments, terraces, offices and hotels for up to 100 years, according to the plans. Between 250 and 300 people will call the first floating city home.
The Institute says their team is now actively engaged in diplomacy with host nations, telling them that hosting an autonomous seastead city in their territorial waters would produce significant economic, social and environmental benefits for their citizens. The Institute claims it will “give people the freedom to choose the government”. If inhabitants disagree with the city’s government, they could float their colony to another city, forcing governments to work to attract citizens.
The first floating city is predicted to cost $167 million (£109 million) but the Institute now needs to raise the cash and find a suitable spot for its idyllic city if it is to be built.
The Institute aims to have tens of millions of residents by 2050 and hopes to have dozens and eventually hundreds of platforms linked together to create an idyllic kingdom.
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