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Irrepressible increase in human population brings out the necessity of new living spaces across the world. Due to the lack of lands for building construction, floating city concept becomes current among considerable number of countries. Moreover, conforming to rising sea levels and climate change, precautions should be urgently taken by companies, researchers and designers. Along with the technological developments, it is now inevitable to construct special settlements on the sea. In this paper, we are gathering current concepts and approaches to lead the scientific era to make more researches for the floating city projects. Meanwhile self-sufficiency as a concept is not studied in the literature, the use of renewable resources gains importance for sustainable buildings and constructions on the sea. Therefore, since low budget is the main purpose of every construction, material usage should also be taken into consideration for the floating settlements in general. Furthermore, this paper presents the applications, research and development of urban city designs which have been studied so far in the literature, and they could be adapted to the design phase of floating city projects. Therefore, most of the floating city projects have novel approaches and concepts, yet further research is still needed for making actual project implementations.
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The work and the contribution were supported by the SPEV project “Smart Solutions in Ubiquitous Computing Environments”, University of Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Czech Republic (under ID: UHK-FIM-SPEV-2018).
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Kirimtat, A., Krejcar, O. (2018). Development of Self-sufficient Floating Cities with Renewable Resources. In: Nguyen, N., Pimenidis, E., Khan, Z., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11056. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98446-9_41
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