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Floating city may refer to: Aberdeen floating village, Hong Kong Floating cities and islands in fiction, the use of artificial floating cities as a speculative
Floating_city
2012 Chinese-Hong Kong film by Yim Ho
Floating City (Chinese: 浮城; Jyutping: fau4 seng4) is a 2012 drama film directed by Yim Ho. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was released on
Floating_City
1871 novel by Jules Verne
A Floating City, or sometimes translated The Floating City (French: Une ville flottante), is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published
A_Floating_City
Science fiction concept
In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float
Floating cities and islands in fiction
Floating_cities_and_islands_in_fiction
Planned development in the Indian Ocean
Maldives Floating City is a development in Maldives designed to tackle the rising sea levels of the Indian Ocean. Set to open in 2027, the city will house
Maldives_Floating_City
Island (natural or artificial) made of floating plants, mud, and peat
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred
Floating_island
Concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea
several seasteading conferences and started The Floating City Project, which is proposed to locate a floating city within the territorial waters of an existing
Seasteading
2025 book
Awake in the Floating City is a 2025 climate fiction novel by Susanna Kwan. According to Lorraine Berry of The Los Angeles Times, the novel "asks whether
Awake_in_the_Floating_City
English musician (born 1958)
that is The Floating City, players can haggle over merchandise and music downloads, including brand new songs from A Map of the Floating City, Dolby's first
Thomas_Dolby
Non-profit organization
In the spring of 2013, TSI launched The Floating City Project. The project proposed to locate a floating city within the territorial waters of an existing
The_Seasteading_Institute
Proposed floating city project
The Freedom Ship is a floating city project proposed in the late 1990s by engineer Norman Nixon. The namesake of the project reflects the designer's vision
Freedom_Ship
2011 studio album by Thomas Dolby
A Map of the Floating City is the fifth studio album by English new wave/synth-pop musician Thomas Dolby, released on 24 October 2011. It was Dolby's
A_Map_of_the_Floating_City
Artificial islands used as infrastructure in aquatic environments
proposed for building floating cities or huge living complexes. Some units have been constructed and are presently in operation. Floating structures offer
Very_large_floating_structure
1988 studio album by Y Kant Tori Read
however, Amos played a full version of "Fire on the Side", as well as "Floating City" and "Pirates". "The Big Picture" and "Fayth" were performed as mashups
Y_Kant_Tori_Read_(album)
2023 fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson
sister Elegy, who has been turned into a Charred. Nomad reaches the floating city of Beacon. He befriends the citizens there as they flee from the Cinder
The_Sunlit_Man
Short story by Jules Verne
Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages)
The_Blockade_Runners
2018 film
Dead Pigs (Chinese: 海上浮城; literally "floating city on the sea") is a 2018 comedy drama film written and directed by Cathy Yan in her directorial feature
Dead_Pigs
Album by Thomas Dolby
July 1992. It was Dolby's last studio album until 2011's A Map of the Floating City and his last album to be released as a vinyl LP. The album was met with
Astronauts_&_Heretics
Proposed type of large building
waterscraper, is a proposed large building which will function as a floating city. It would generate its own energy through wave, wind, current, solar
Seascraper
First-person shooter video game franchise
city of Rapture. BioShock Infinite (2013) is thematically and narratively tied to the first games, and takes place in 1912 aboard the floating city of
BioShock_(series)
Topics referred to by the same term
Cloud City may refer to: Floating city (science fiction) Cloud City, a floating city on the planet Bespin in the Star Wars universe Cloud City, a nickname
Cloud_City
Computer approximation for real numbers
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a significand (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits
Floating-point_arithmetic
2012 video game
of the junk planet Deponia, as he attempts to seek a new life on the floating city known as Elysium. However, he soon becomes embroiled with the task of
Deponia_(video_game)
2022 survival video game
almost all land. An initiative, the Floating Cities Project, is launched to construct livable environments floating on the oceans, but it is led by an
Raft_(video_game)
2009 animated film directed by Pete Docter
that the most intriguing element was the isolation of the floating city. So the whole city was stripped down to a single flying house with just a single
Up_(2009_film)
Canadian businessman (born 1959)
Heiress Chloe Stroll Ties the Knot With Olympian Snowboarder in the 'Floating City' as Parade of F1 Stars Grace the Lavish Occasion". Essentially Sports
Lawrence_Stroll
2013 video game
place in a floating steampunk city-state in the sky called "Columbia", named for the female personification of the United States. The city of Columbia
BioShock_Infinite
2005 video game
Aven, a city so high in the mountains that it often appears to be floating in the clouds, from the attack of various creatures. This "floating city" is the
Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade
Untold_Legends:_Brotherhood_of_the_Blade
Floating building in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
support growing cities, Floating Farm is designed to use residual products, such as grass from public parks and food waste, produced by the city, to feed the
Floating_Farm
Chinese writer (born 1949)
Floating City (Chinese: 浮城), A Red Guard's Confessions (Chinese: 一个红卫兵的自白), From Fudan University to Beijing Film Academy (Chinese: 从复旦到北影), The City
Liang_Xiaosheng
Episodic expansion to the first-person shooter video game "BioShock Infinite"
several alternate realities. Whereas Infinite takes place aboard the floating city Columbia, Burial at Sea primarily takes place in the underwater metropolis
BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea
BioShock_Infinite:_Burial_at_Sea
Fictional species appearing in the New Gods comic book series
incarnation, New Genesis appears much the same, consisting of a futuristic floating city above a mostly rural world covered in forests. In the Darkseid special
New_Gods
Market where goods are sold from boats
A floating market is a market where goods are sold from boats. Originating in times and places where water transport played an important role in daily
Floating_market
Engineering the global environment of Venus to make it suitable for humans
necessarily be great. Geoffrey A. Landis has suggested that if enough floating cities were built, they could form a solar shield around the planet, and could
Terraforming_of_Venus
Fictional planet, native world of Superman
activates a force field which protects Argo City from the explosion and preserves it as a floating city. Eight years later, Zor-El and his wife Alura
Krypton_(comics)
Subgenre of science fiction
steampunk alternate fantasy world called the Floating City, to promote his album A Map of the Floating City. Another setting is "Western" steampunk, which
Steampunk
Collection of works by Jules Verne
sous les mers, 1869–70) Around the Moon (Autour de la lune, 1870) A Floating City (Une ville flottante, 1871) The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three
Voyages_extraordinaires
British sailing steamship launched in 1858
carrying so much cargo and passengers that papers described her as a "floating city" and "the Crystal Palace of the sea". Brunel saw the ship as being able
SS_Great_Eastern
2011 video game
factions, Resistance and Security, battle in a once-utopian city called The Ark, a floating city above the waters of a flooded Earth. Brink has Steamworks
Brink_(video_game)
Public art installation in Toronto
Global Convenience (also known as the "floating convenience store") was a floating public art installation in the form of a fully stocked convenience
Global_Convenience
Type of ocean claim
Architecture company BIG proposed a design called Oceanix City, involving a series of inhabitable floating villages clustered together to form an archipelago
Ocean_colonization
2022 novel by Ned Beauman
to trade this information for clemency. They go to Surface Wave, a floating city which is currently being overrun by genetically modified gnats. During
Venomous_Lumpsucker
21st episode of the 3rd season of Star Trek: The Original Series
the miners off, and invites Kirk and Spock to return with him to the floating city of Stratos. Kirk and Spock are entertained as guests until the zenite
The_Cloud_Minders
1998 video game
and his friends decide to ally themselves with the floating city of Shevat, the only remaining city capable of resisting Solaris, joined by Shevat locals
Xenogears
American writer (born 1948)
novels also include a tangential story, told in The Wizard and the Floating City, that interrupted the sequence of Bazil Broketail novels and introduced
Christopher_Rowley
City in Veneto, Italy
the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals." The lagoon and the city within the lagoon
Venice
Non-profit organization
The Floating Hospital is a non-profit organization that provides healthcare services to medically underserved communities in New York City, both from its
Floating_Hospital
1969 British film by James Hill
from an idea that led to Roger Corman's failed Captain Nemo and the Floating City, itself based on a combination of two of Jules Verne's stories. Though
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Captain_Nemo_and_the_Underwater_City
1960s–1980s Japanese architectural movement
Further unbuilt floating city projects were undertaken, including a floating city in Hawaii for ocean research and a plug-in floating A-frame unit containing
Metabolism_(architecture)
Building project in Lagos, Nigeria (2013–2016)
The Makoko Floating School was a building project of Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria which was developed in 2013. The school was abandoned in March 2016 over safety
Makoko_Floating_School
Topics referred to by the same term
the Sky, a 1986 animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki featuring a floating city "Castles in the Sky", an episode in the 9th season of Arthur "Castles
Castles_in_the_Sky
Building created to float on water
A floating building is a building unit with a flotation system at its base, allowing it to float on water. It is common to define such a building as being
Floating_building
Fictional planet in Star Wars
closely resembles Cloud City, the floating city featured in The Empire Strikes Back. In Lucas's third draft, the Imperial City of Alderaan became the homeworld
Coruscant
Group of residents outside an official census count
this category remains more or less the same. The floating population, on the other hand, of a city consists of two types. The first category includes
Floating_population
providing biodiversity habitat. Examples include Gold Coast City Council in Australia. Artificial floating reedbeds are commonly anchored to the shoreline or bottom
Floating_reedbeds
Argentine businessperson
entrepreneur Khalid Al-Ali. SFF planned sending thousands people above floating city on Venus around 2050. Söhnlein explained to The Independent "that [Venus's]
Guillermo_Söhnlein
1873 novel by Jules Verne
Classics Illustrated (JES) #41 facsimile edition (JES13027), retitled "The Floating Island" Cf. Piero Gondolo della Riva: Bibliographie analytique de toutes
The_Fur_Country
IEEE standard for floating-point arithmetic
The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the
IEEE_754
Vietnamese markets where goods are sold from boats
Floating markets of Vietnam, or chợ nổi in Vietnamese, are areas of commerce based within the country's many river systems. Vietnam's extensive network
Floating_markets_of_Vietnam
British architectural artist (born 1974)
include Drawings (1987), Cities (1989), Floating Cities (1991), and Stephen Wiltshire's American Dream (1993). Floating Cities was number one on The Sunday
Stephen_Wiltshire
Index of articles associated with the same name
Hexadecimal floating point may refer to: IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal_floating_point
American novelist (born 1946)
The Ninja (1980) The Miko (1984) White Ninja (1990) The Kaisho (1993) Floating City (1994) Second Skin (1995) "The Death and Life of Nicholas Linnear" (2014)
Eric_Van_Lustbader
American video game developer (born 1966)
creative director and lead writer on BioShock Infinite, set in 1912 in the floating city of Columbia. BioShock Infinite was a critical and commercial success
Ken_Levine_(game_developer)
Skyscraper in Osaka, Japan
second concept was to emphasize a vision of a "floating city", which can be reflected from the city's urban landscape and is contrasted with the opaque
Umeda_Sky_Building
Marvel Comics fictional character
height, he demonstrated the ability to simultaneously levitate the floating city of Providence and combat the Silver Surfer. Following that story, his
Cable_(character)
Floating hotel
Minh City in Vietnam, where it became the city's first five-star hotel and a commercial success. Renamed the Saigon Floating Hotel, the floating hotel
Hotel_Haegumgang
BioShock character
a boat to a lighthouse that enables airborne transportation to the floating city of Columbia. From then onwards, both individuals became the center of
Lutece_twins
Saudi Arabian island in the Red Sea
Saudi Arabia’s fish production. During the festival, Jazan looks like a floating city due to the large number of fishing boats, and the lights from the ships
Farasan_Island
2018 video game
decree from Princess Persephone of Lemuria summons explorers to the floating city of Maginia. From there, they travel through the Lemuria archipelago
Etrian_Odyssey_Nexus
City in Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia
of the city across the Tonle Sap River. The economy of the area is dominated by rice production. Until recently, many locals lived in floating fishing
Kampong_Chhnang_(city)
Drug epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s
Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Penguin Press, 2008 Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Crack epidemic in the United States
Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_States
2019 film by Robert Rodriguez
revealed that he set the floating city of Zalem in Panama, specifically Panama City. He explained that the city Zalem is not floating, but hanging from a space
Alita:_Battle_Angel
The Royal Navy had a number of floating drydocks for the repair of warships where there was no fixed dry dock available. The docks did not receive a name
List of Admiralty floating docks
List_of_Admiralty_floating_docks
Type of heavily armed watercraft
in 1550, Spanish captain Garcia de Toledo Osorio built a floating battery to bombard the city. The fortified, nine-gun battery was built over two galleys
Floating_battery
World's Fair held on Japanese island of Okinawa
Pavilion Aquapolis — Centerpiece floating city. Canada Pavilion Australia Pavilion Italy Pavilion U.S.S.R. Pavilion Expo New City Car (K.R.T.) International
Expo_'75
2002 weird fantasy novel by China Miéville
and prisoners are all press-ganged into being citizens of Armada, a floating city made of thousands of ships. Tanner uses his newfound freedom to embrace
The_Scar_(novel)
Topics referred to by the same term
Japanese-American full-size SUV Armada (Bas-Lag), the name of a fictional floating city in China Miéville's novel The Scar Armada (Capoeira), a move in the
Armada
1989 studio album by Julee Cruise
Floating into the Night is the debut studio album by American singer Julee Cruise. It was released on September 12, 1989, by Warner Bros. Records, and
Floating_into_the_Night
2010 novel by N. K. Jemisin
mourning the murder of her mother, is summoned to the magnificent floating city of Sky by her grandfather Dekarta, the ruler of the world and head of
The_Hundred_Thousand_Kingdoms
1983 novel by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
collapse. To force Vata’s release from Islander control, Gallow destroys a floating city and kidnaps Ward Keel, the Islander Chief Justice responsible for deciding
The_Lazarus_Effect_(novel)
Ocean liner with four funnels
Eastern's 1867 westbound crossing and would later write the novel A Floating City based on his experience during this voyage. The first Paris Exposition
Four-funnel_liner
Proposed airborne habitats
that 'mini-cities' or airborne towns of thousands of people could be built in this way. A Cloud Nine could be tethered, or free-floating, or maneuverable
Cloud_Nine_(sphere)
Japanese cyberpunk manga series and its adaptations
memories of her earlier life on Mars. She becomes involved with the floating city of Zalem (Tiphares in some older translations) as one of their agents
Battle_Angel_Alita
British musician (1955–2020)
Escapes. In 2011 to 2012 he contributed to Thomas Dolby's A Map of the Floating City also appearing with him on tours of the UK and northern Europe, at the
Matthew_Seligman
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating island of garbage or island of floating trash, could refer to: Garbage patch, a collection of floating detritus formed from trash coming together
Floating_island_of_garbage
2016 video game
humans and owl-humanoid creatures alike. Vellie is located near the floating city of Advent which is their capital. The owls do not naturally have the
Owlboy
The Floating Light Bulb is a 1981 Broadway play by Woody Allen. Semi-autobiographical, it focuses on a lower middle class family living in Canarsie, Brooklyn
The_Floating_Light_Bulb
Signifier without a definite referent
In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers are signifiers, such as words or images, that can be interpreted in different ways and so do not
Floating_signifier
1981 book by Richard Buckminster Fuller
329); O-Volving shelves (p. 331); tetrahedral floating city (p. 333); Cloud Nines - spherical floating cities (p. 336); 8,000-foot Tokyo Tower (p. 338);
Critical_Path_(book)
Type of wind turbine
Floating offshore wind involves one or more offshore wind turbines mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water
Floating_offshore_wind
Topics referred to by the same term
Museum of Art, a museum in Santa Clara, California, US Triton City, a concept for a floating city proposed by Buckminster Fuller Wikispecies has information
Triton
Italian poet and courtesan (c. 1546–1591)
Retrieved 2022-08-11. Ferraro, Joanne M. (2016). Venice: History of the Floating City. Cambridge University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-139-53618-9. Ray, Meredith
Veronica_Franco
Taiwan-born Hong Kong actress
Rose (2013 - directorial debut) Catching Monkey (2012) Cold War (2012) Floating City (2012) Sleepwalker (2011) Wind Blast (2010) 37 (2010) Bangkok Dangerous
Charlie_Yeung
Mecha-based video game series
course of the game pollutes the environment, leading to the creation of floating cities in 2008's Armored Core: For Answer. Depending on the player's choices
Armored_Core
2017 video game
shortchange the village, they travel to the floating city of Jirga Para Lhao for supplies. There, they realize that the city's rich are oppressing its poor through
Gravity_Rush_2
Type of United States Navy drydocks
A floating drydock is a type of ship repair facility that has been used since at least the early 19th century. It was adopted for widespread use by the
Auxiliary_floating_drydock
Ship type
A floating restaurant is a vessel, usually a large steel barge or hulk, used as a restaurant on water. The Jumbo Kingdom, formerly located at Aberdeen
Floating_restaurant
American animated fantasy television series
of the city of Gondar. It is destroyed by Shaldemar, but Blackstar defeats him with Prince Dal's help. Dal and Loweena claim the floating city of Marakand
Blackstar_(TV_series)
American science fiction writer and teacher
icecaps, investigation into violence against refugees out at sea and in a floating city; set in Texas 7th Sigma (2011): A novel set in an American Southwest
Steven_Gould
French-American animated television series
adapted to the environment. The surviving human population lives in the floating city of Airlandis. The series follows the adventures of the dragon-riders
Dragon_Flyz
travel, tourism, insurance
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