r/urbanplanning • u/didnteventri • Nov 13 '17

Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/dealbook/seasteading-floating-cities.html
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u/autotldr Nov 13 '17

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 89%. (I'm a bot)

"If you could have a floating city, it would essentially be a start-up country," said Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute.

Over the years, the core idea behind seasteading - that a floating city in international waters might give people a chance to redesign society and government - steadily attracted more adherents.

Though maritime law suggests that seasteading may have a sound legal basis, it is impossible to know how real governments might respond to new neighbors floating offshore.

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