Floating cities could be the future of living. The Seasteading Institute made waves in 2008 (sorry, not sorry) when notable VC Peter Thiel decided to co-found the project. The floating cities are ...

One project engineer described the prototype as similar to a cruise ship, but from a distance the cities might look like oil-drilling platforms. According to the plans, the floating cities would ...

They call them floating cities, but the term is an overt misnomer. Floating cities don’t actually float, but are essentially platforms that are anchored to the seabed in coastal areas.

Floating cities have long seemed like a utopian pipedream based on little more than fantasy. But this week the concept appeared to take a step closer to reality through a UN-backed partnership.

Floating cities might appear like something straight from the pages of science fiction, but in truth, humans have been living, and farming, on floating habitats for centuries. "We have compiled a ...

One clear pitfall of these plans? They could only house a fraction of the people who live in big cities. But experts are optimistic about floating metropolises as a way to mitigate the climate crisis.

But do floating cities really hold water as an option for some of the planet’s most vulnerable? Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. To support our nonprofit environmental journalism ...

Floating cities could become a reality if “seasteaders” like George Petrie have their way. The naval architect is director of engineering for the Seasteading Institute, a nonprofit firm ...

Second, it allows cities to expand their pressurized coastal urban spaces. But perhaps there is another side to offshore housing. As I have looked at in my PhD, floating architecture can also be a ...

Many coastal cities are at growing risk of flooding. Architects are trying to react to this development with new ideas, such as floating cities. Sacha and Jan live in a waterborne section of the ...