Seasteading
Seasteading

Author: Joe Quirk

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 145169928X

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In these “thought-provoking visions of the future” (The Wall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality. Our planet has been suffering from serious environmental problems and their social and political consequences. But imagine a vast new source of sustainable and renewable energy that would also bring more equitable economies. A previously untapped source of farming that could produce significant new sources of nutrition. Future societies where people could choose the communities they want to live in, free from the restrictions of conventional citizenship. This extraordinary vision of our near future as imagined in Seasteading attracted the powerful support of Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel—and it may be drawing close to reality. Facing growing environmental threats, French Polynesia has already signed on to build some of the world’s first seasteads. Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman show us how cities built on floating platforms in the ocean will work, and they profile some of the visionaries who are implementing basic concepts of seasteading today. An entrepreneur’s dream, these floating cities will become laboratories for innovation and creativity. Seasteading “offers hope for a future when life on land has grown grim” (Kirkus Reviews), proving the adage that yesterday’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.

A Floating City on the Water
A Floating City on the Water

Author: Chang-sun Son

Publisher: Homa & Sekey Books

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1931907188

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Tells how ideological division between South and North Koreas wreaks tragic consequences upon a family for three generations.

Venice
Venice

Author: Joanne Marie Ferraro

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781139539661

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Floating City
Floating City

Author: Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Publisher: Penguin Press HC

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9781594204166

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The best-selling author of Gang Leader for a Day takes his next sociological study to Manhattan, where he travels through the underground economy utilized by prostitutes, madams, drug dealers, immigrants, hedge fund traders, hipster artists and nannies.

The Millennial Project
The Millennial Project

Author: Marshall Thomas Savage

Publisher: Little Brown

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780316771634

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A visionary blueprint for exploring and colonizing space combines science, technological sophistication, and fact-based speculation for building self-contained environments in space

The Gracekeepers
The Gracekeepers

Author: Kirsty Logan

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0553446630

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For readers of The Night Circus and Station Eleven, a lyrical and absorbing debut set in a world covered by water As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. In a world divided between those inhabiting the mainland ("landlockers") and those who float on the sea ("damplings"), loneliness has become a way of life for North and Callanish, until a sudden storm offshore brings change to both their lives--offering them a new understanding of the world they live in and the consequences of the past, while restoring hope in an unexpected future. Inspired in part by Scottish myths and fairytales, The Gracekeepers tells a modern story of an irreparably changed world: one that harbors the same isolation and sadness, but also joys and marvels of our own age. — Finalist, Lambda Literary Award

Floating Cities
Floating Cities

Author: Stephen Wiltshire

Publisher: Michael Joseph

Published: 1992-01-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780718134877

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A number-one bestseller in England this past spring, Floating Cities is a collection of fabulously detailed drawings of the great cities of the world by the 16-year-old autistic genius Stephen Wiltshire (described by Sir Hugh Casson as "the best child artist in Britain".) 125 drawings. ABC-TV profile on 20/20 to air in January.

Death in the Floating City
Death in the Floating City

Author: Tasha Alexander

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1250011035

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The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it! Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite society when she eloped to Venice with an Italian count. But now her father-in-law lies murdered, and her husband has vanished. There's no one Emma can turn to for help but Emily, who leaves at once with her husband, the dashing Colin Hargreaves, for Venice. There, her investigations take her from opulent palazzi to slums, libraries, and bordellos. Emily soon realizes that to solve the present day crime, she must first unravel a centuries old puzzle. But the past does not give up its secrets easily, especially when these revelations might threaten the interests of some very powerful people.

The Floating Pool Lady
The Floating Pool Lady

Author: Ann L. Buttenwieser

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1501716026

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Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in New York Harbor. When Buttenwieser decided something needed to be done to help revitalize the New York City waterfront, she reached into the city's nineteenth-century past for inspiration. Buttenwieser wanted New Yorkers to reestablish their connection to their riverine surroundings and she was energized by the prospect of city youth returning to the Hudson and East Rivers. What she didn't suspect was that outfitting and donating a swimming facility for free enjoyment by the public would turn into an almost-Sisyphean task. As she describes in The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser battled for years with politicians and struggled with bureaucrats as she brought her "crazy" scheme to fruition. From dusty archives in the historic Battery Maritime Building to high-stakes community board meetings to tense negotiations in the Louisiana shipyard, Buttenwieser retells the improbable process that led to a pool named The Floating Pool Lady tying up to a pier at Barretto Point Park in the Bronx, ready for summer swimmers. Throughout The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser raises consciousness about persistent environmental issues and the challenges of developing a constituency for projects to make cities livable in the twenty-first century. Her story and that of her floating pool function as both warning and inspiration to those who dare to dream of realizing innovative public projects in the modern urban landscape.