Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Our Future of Living on the Water - Floating Cities?" video.

I love this idea, because it feels so much like a video game. But at the same time it's clear that it's very early days for floating cities, and there's an awful lot of problems that will need to be solved before they could work as true cities. No doubt that's why the SeaSteading guys are only talking about building expensive single "pods" and not whole communities. I'm really interested in the Oceanix project and hope they actually build it. In Southeast Asia they've had floating villages and neighborhoods for centuries. For instance lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia has hundreds of little floating fishing villages. But these places tend to be inhabited by the poorest of the poor who depend upon resource extraction to survive. Or in the case of floating neighborhoods, they tend to be the poorest and most desperate parts of the slums, were people locate because their semi legal-status means residents don't have to pay property taxes. If an American city that's threatened by climate change - like say, Miami - was able to transform itself using this technology and became partially floating and partially on land, how would the floating sections avoid the long term pressures that tend to turn floating neighborhoods into slums? Would people with money want to live on the floating parts, or would everybody be competing to live on land?
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