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    Dr Emilio Lizardo: Two problems: One criticism of diets high in animal proteins is that we eat the animals who have to eat a large amount of vegetation which is wasteful... more »
    twophrasebark: "Future Hawaiian Cities Will Be Partly Underwater" That's good since the islands will probably be underwater anyway in a few decades. more »
    EnBuenOra: And yet no one gives George Bush Jr. and Brownie much credit for trying to push New Orleans to innovate with aquatic living conditions. more »
    Ruthless, If you let me: Current Italian cities, er.. There's already a current Italian city partly under water. They don't have the farming down yet though. more »
    Illundiel: I'm probably missing all the Science involved here, but when companies did this with rivers it killed fish. Granted this is on a larger scale, but as ... more »
    hopskipper: In one of the Star Wars books there was a city on a planet so close to a sun that it had to stay on the dark side all of the time. They took a bunch o... more »
    SanfordGadgtastic: There is a great book called Mortal Engines that uses this technology as a background. Awesome fiction! more »
    ♠ Final ♠: I haven't had a car with power windows that haven't failed on me yet. Good luck walking that thing through the antarctic following the penguin migrat... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: As cool as these ideas seem in anime and colonies on hostile planets, I'd think that a roaming city would be somewhat devastating to the local ecology... more »
    Omaxem: I'd love to walk my house to work, but wouldn't parking become a problem? more »
  • #futurism

    Future Hawaiian Cities Will Be Partly Underwater

    As the cities on Hawaiian islands grow larger, they'll start developing offshore, building underwater resources for residents. Already a plan is underway to cool Honolulu using ocean water; and offshore farming there could turn oceans into food production areas. More »
  • #retrofuturism

    A City That Walks on Giant Actuators

    Back in the 1960s, a group of UK design radicals got together and formed Archigram, an art collective whose creations (like this "walking city") have become synonymous with architectural futurism. More »
  • #dystopia

    India's Walled Cities Resemble Neo-Victorian Enclaves of "The Diamond Age"

    It's as if we're witnessing the rise of the walled cities in Neal Stephenson's novel The Diamond Age, where neo-Victorians live in isolated, nanotech splendor while other people live in cardboard boxes. This image shows the stark contrast between the slums and the mini-city called Hamilton Court in Gurgaon, India. More »
  • #urbanfuture

    This City Will Never Drown Again

    This gorgeous image of a floating city is one design team's idea of what New Orleans might look like in the future. Let me add to that: a better future, where urban design is graceful, humane, and forward-looking. Their idea is to create low-cost houses that are buoyant, and that survive floods by welcoming the Mississippi River into the city. More »