Floating city

Floating city

Floating city may refer to:

Mythical cities

  • Asgard
  • Shamballah, as conceived by Theosophy, as floating above the Gobi Desert on the etheric plane and being the home of the governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara

Others

  • Freedom Ship, a concept for a floating city ship proposed by Norman Nixon of Freedom Ship International
  • "Floating City" (song), by Tori Amos' 1980s synthpop band
  • Raft Cities (from the Mortal Engines Quartet of books)
  • Floating Cities (book) a book by Stephen Wiltshire

See also


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