Large Floating Solutions

Large Floating Solutions builds on the foundations laid in Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances, extending the analysis to the next generation of Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS) as integrated, climate-adaptive urban systems. This volume provides a comprehensive examination of the engineering, environmental, and architectural innovations required to deliver modular, resilient floating cities, alongside offshore energy, aquaculture, and transport infrastructure. It addresses the complex legal, regulatory, and governance frameworks that underpin buoyant urbanism, including property rights, environmental compliance, and international law, and considers the role of artificial intelligence and autonomous maritime systems in urban management. Together, these contributions position floating infrastructure as a critical solution to escalating global water challenges.

Large Floating Solutions: Buoyant Urbanism is our Key Solution to the Emergent Global Water Crisis. - Exploring Design of Floating Urban Developments: Integrating Density, Engineering and Environmental Considerations. - Brain Coral: Floating City in the Maldives. - Mega Floating City: Green Float. - Analysis and Design of Floating Bridges: Recent Advances and Challenges. - Modular Floating Structures for Offshore Urban Development in Real SeaConditions. - Industrialization Challenges in Floating Wind. - Hydrodynamic Responses of a Modular Floating Solar Platform. - Innovative Aquaculture Penghu : The First Semi-Submersible Wave Energy-Powered Platform in China. - Modelling and Testing Techniques of Rigid and Hinged Connected VLFS for Offshore Renewable Energy Applications. - Large Offshore Floating Fish Pens: Ocean Farm 1 and Havfarm 1. - Floating Leisure Infrastructure: Integrating the World s Largest Floating Infinity Pool at Lake Como. - Submersible Platforms for Offshore Marine Permaculture. - Design and Fabrication of Floating Artificial Reefs: Enhancing Biodiversity and Food Production. - Designing for Buoyant Urbanism: Pedagogy, Architectural Paradigms and Social Acceptance of Floating Cities. - Designing for Floating Artificial Reefs: The Role of Architecture in Marine Ecosystem Restoration. - City Parts: Urban Form Design Guidelines for Floating Cities. - Navigating the Legal and Regulatory Frontiers of Urban AI, Autonomous Maritime Robots and Floating Cities. - From Land to Water: Policy considerations supporting why Floating Cities can help combat Climate Change. - Home is Where the Heart Floats: Anchoring Legal Property Concepts for Environmental Migrants. - The `Bundle of Rights of Property: A Close Examination of the Jural Relationship in Artificial Landscapes and Floating Structures as Land Replacements. - Buoyant Futures: Our global duty to recognise Floating Cities as `Territory in International Law.