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2.6  Osaka (Japan) Bay Floating City

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Perhaps in this 21 Century, floating cities may become a reality with the advancing technology in construction and the shortage of land. Architects and engineers have already made design sketches of how such floating cities could look like. Figures 10-13 show artist impressions of some floating cities that are proposed by various Japanese corporations. Focus A and Focus B are named after their proposed locations at the two foci of the elliptical Osaka Bay (Watanabe, 2004).

 Fig. 10 Marine Uranus by Nishimatsu Corporation.

  Fig. 11  Pearl Shell by Shimizu Corporation.

 Fig. 12  Osaka Focus A by Japanese Society of Steel Construction.

  Fig. 13 Osaka Focus B by Japanese Society of Steel Construction.

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