Floating city
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Floating city may refer to:
- Floating cities and islands in fiction, the use of artificial floating cities as a speculative fiction trope
- 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
- Seasteading, the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea
Mythical and fictional floating cities
- Asgard
- Laputa, an island and city in the air in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
- Shambhala, 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 2012 film from Hong Kong