Artisanopolis, created by Gabriel Scheare, Luke & Lourdes Crowley, and Patrick White of Roark 3D and Fortgalt as a gift to The Seasteading Institute, in conjunction with the Institute's Architectural Design Contest. Based on the foundational vision of The Seasteading Institute and DeltaSync, these works of art constitute an attempt at communicating the essence of what the infrastructure of sea-based civilization might look like in the near future. In this age of limited governance options, we intend to suggest an alternative model that allows new communities to form beyond the limiting jurisdictions of existing nation states in order to promote freedom and competition in the marketplace. Each floating platform can be towed via tugboat from location to location and they can interlock to form sprawling formations over the water’s surface. Ballasts are used to adjust the depth at which the platforms sit in the water and coupling latches lock them together to form larger, cohesive footprints for convenience and stability. Modeled after those found at the seaport of Brighton, England, a large modular wavebreaker surrounds the city to shelter it from rough waters and wind while energy is supplied by renewable means like photovoltaic panel arrays and wave-driven turbines. Aquaponics greenhouse domes provide locally grown food, seawater is desalinated on site to provide drinking water, organic waste is removed via tankers to an off-site composting location, and inorganic waste is recycled. With so much focus on efficiency and sustainability, The Floating City Project promises to serve as a viable template upon which other seasteading projects can be modeled in the future. This video is has a Creative Commons Attribution License. It means that you are allowed to redistribute and modify it, but that you must attribute the original designer when doing so. Buy the book: "Seasteading, How Ocean Cities Will Change the World": Buy the book: http://amzn.to/2fo6xDs

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1. Good advice is a bonus plan
   Collect people's good advice to make the country more people to make good suggestions do not get good people willing to make good suggestions is not much like the hospital blood shortage as long as the prize to provide a bunch of people grab blood donation
   Good Suggestions Top 10 Best Advice Awards Top 100 Prizes There are also small prizes to attract more good suggestions Ten Good Suggestions open for people's reference Good people around the donations or donations can increase the number of people who make good recommendations好建議有獎金計畫
   
   收集人民的好建議能讓國家更進步 人民提出好建議沒有得到好處 肯提出好建議的人就不多 就像醫院血荒的時候
   只要提供獎品一堆人搶捐血
   
   好建議前十名有最佳建議大獎 前百名也有小獎品
   吸引更多好建議 十大好建議內容公開供人民參考 各地善良人士捐款或捐贈禮物 能增加提出好建議的人獎品量
2. No parks or greenspace? No football or baseball fields?
3. i dont have a problem with beatuiful construction projects countries like uae have uplifted their lifestyle enormously through construction projects
4. The Palm Jumeirah Dubai-2
5. стоить это сколько все будет ?
6. theres no mcdonalds Drive-through?
7. It's impractical for the for wider masses of young people or old or students, it is based solely on capitalistic purpose for few people, build with capitalistic based technology, this is NOT the future!!
8. Category 5 Hurricane.
9. Pretty, but unaffordable for 99% of the population.
10. Beautiful, artistic, alluring and utterly implausible.
    1) The perimeter must be constructed before any of the internal structures exist. (else the first typhoon sinks the lot) -- Fail.
    2) Food. Not enough of it, and can't grow enough of it -- ever. (look at any island economy) -- Fail.
    3) Perfect terrorist target. Independent nation status? Sorry -- you're not protected by a major military -- Fail.
    4) Concrete, millions of cubic yards, from where? -- Fail.
    5) Helicopters or float planes only? Or slow boat from China? No small jet access -- Fail.
    6) Paid for by whom? Rogue capitalists looking for a tax haven? Even better terrorist target.
    
    Just too grandiose for reality. Maybe when nano-bots are born in 200 years that can just make buildings out of calcium leached from ocean waters. "Build me a bot built bungalow by the bay."
    
    Or, just move here: http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/925/071/3071925/think-they-got-a-starbucks.jpg
11. This has to happen
12. Bioshock in real life
13. brilliant project,
14. Interesting concept. The only problem with this (outside of money) would be overpopulation.
15. Would you please make this video under the creative commons license, just like you do with the designs? Thank you so much. Great work.
16. this gonna fail SO BAD lmaoo
17. Can't see why this would be a good thing. Looks like we are only just manipulating raw material and moving it from, perhaps some poor country, and placing it in water. Why innovate when we can update?
18. How do people get on the path surrounding the area?
19. New Idea of next BIO SHOCK game . . . if only they still make it