Have you heard about a floating city of Japan? A couple of days ago, while chatting on Skype with my American friend from Texas, we came across a fascinating article on one of our favorite sites.
Here's the article :https://themindcircle.com/floating-city-of-japan-dogen-city/
According to the article, it'll be operational by 2030. Wow, in just five years!? Could we really have such a futuristic city so soon even though we still don't know exactly where it will float? Really? Those were my first thoughts when I read the article. Then, I started doubting it because of natural disasters such as typhoons, tsunami and earthquakes. How would the city handle these disasters?
As we kept talking, he looked up the official website and shared it with me. https://www.n-ark.jp/en/dogen-city
It seems very serious and definitely, we'll have the floating city in near future. The city plans to have hospitals, stadium, schools, supermarkets, restaurants, offices, parks and even cemeteries. It's designed to hold a population of 40,000 people; 10,000 permanent residents and 30,000 visitors. The city is anchored to withstand natural disasters, eco-friendly, and designed to promote citizen health. It all sounds very interesting!
I don't want to live there permanently, but visiting there to experience the floating city might be very interesting. What do you think about our new project?
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Sounds interesting!
@Sunflower1234 Thank you for taking your time to read it!
Very interesting, Yumi ( @yumiyumayume ). I think it is an extension of the traditional Asian floating villages but in this case including modern technological advances. The biggest challenge it faces is its technical and economic feasibility.
From here, we would have to make a philosophical analysis of what kind of society we are building for our future.
very interesting! :)
@druida Thank you as always for the comment! I guess the company wants to examine their products in Japan first and in the future they might export the artificial islands to the world. It might help increasing population. They also can use the city to open for disaster victims.
@miagrace314 Thank you for the corrections and the comment.