A City for Climate Change Refugees
This “auto-sufficient amphibious” city will mostly likely end up being some kind of eco-resort for the rich long before it becomes a refuge for the displaced. But oh I wish I could live on it now.
Each city-pad can sustain 50,000 inhabitants and includes plans for self-sustainable resources, zero or no co2 emissions, and obviously the pleasure of living in such a place.
Huffington Post thinks such a city will be far in the future but the idea of a planned, man- made island has already been done in Dubai. If you combine Dubai’s islands with an oil rig platform, it seems that pad-city is soon to come.
Filed under: city, lilypad, future, environmental planning on July 6th, 2008
I can’t remember the author - but when I was a young kiddo I read an amazing book by a notable speculative fiction author from the 60s or 70s about someone living in a floating city on the sea.
I swear that’s how most of these ideas come to be….
For example, the water bed. May you drink deeply… just not from your water bed.