Floating Cities: Strategies of Adaptation And Long-Lasting Anticipation ?

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Climate change is redefining the rules by which we live and at a pace we never expected. Because of rising sea level, several areas of the globe are in danger of vanishing from the map, disappearing under water. Society must adapt and maybe, one day, live in floating houses…

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