Plans for the world’s first man-made “floating city” in the Pacific
Ocean are beginning to take shape, with the non-profit organisation
behind the project claiming a prototype could be ready by 2020.
The San Francisco-based Seasteading Institute has spent about a decade
trying to work out how to build “permanent, innovative communities
floating at sea”. More pics…
Earlier this year, it signed an agreement with government of French
Polynesia to begin constructing the first of these self-sustaining
nation states in 2019.
Polynesia to begin constructing the first of these self-sustaining
nation states in 2019.
Joe Quirk, president of Seasteading Institute, has outlined his plan to
build a community consisting of about a dozen structures – including
homes, hotels, offices and restaurants. To be ready by 2020.
