Floating city

Floating city may refer to:

• Floating city (science fiction), settlements that use buoyancy to remain in the atmosphere of a planet
• Ocean colonization, the theory and practice of building structures to allow humans to live permanently in areas of Earth covered in water
• Very large floating structure, the theory and practice of building floating structures on the sea

Mythical cities

• Asgard
• Shamballah, as conceived by Theosophy, as floating above the Gobi Desert on the etheric plane and being the home of the governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara

Others

• Freedom Ship, a concept for a floating city ship proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International
• "Floating City" (song), by Tori Amos' 1980s synthpop band
• Raft Cities (from the Mortal Engines Quartet of books)
• Floating Cities (book) a book by Stephen Wiltshire
• Floating City, a novel by Eric Van Lustbader
• Floating City, a 2012 film from Hong Kong

See also

• Urban resilience#Flooding
• Stilt house
• Mobile offshore base (MOB)
• Walking city