Belgian Architect Proposes Floating Cities. Newslite.tv, July 4, 2008. "Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut... says he has come up with a answer to the problems of rising sea waters - floating cities. Each 'Lilypad' would be capable of housing 50,000... [They] would be built around a lake which purified rain water... Inspired by the highly ribbed leave of the great lilypad of Amazonia, Victoria Regia, he is certain technological advances will make the construction of the cities a possibility by the time we need them. He is now calling for governments to spend money developing the idea rather than trying to increase flood defenses. 'Whereas the Netherlands and the United Arabic Emirates fatten their beach with billion of euros to build their short-living polders and their protective dams for a decade, Lilypad deals with a tenable solution to the water rising,' he said. 'It is a true amphibian half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting the biodiversity to develop its fauna and flora around a central lagoon of soft water collecting and purifying the rain waters. The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of the couple Human / Nature and to explore new modes of living the sea by building with fluidity collective spaces in proximity, overwhelming spaces of social inclusion suitable to the meeting of all the inhabitants - denizen or foreign-born, recent or old, young or aged people."
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