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 The Tanka community in southeast China is home to 7 000 fishermen, "the gypsies of the sea".<br><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451023/Chinas-Tanka-boat-peoples-floating-homes.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451023/Chinas-Tanka-boat-peoples-floating-homes.html</a> |  The Bajau Laut people of the south-western Philippines and Indonesia live their entire lives on the sea.<br><a href="http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/bajau-laut-sea-gypsies/#.UpX3TI0bq_U" target="_blank">http://amazingstuff.co.uk/humanity/bajau-laut-sea-gypsies/#.UpX3TI0bq_U</a> |  1600 fishermen, 4 floating villages live today on the Ha Long Bay. For these inhabitants "the earth is confinement, papers and problems".<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%E1%BA%A1_Long_Bay</a> |
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 "Prammen" by Détours is a floating camp with facilities (stage, bar, kitchen, relaxation places), 2008.<br><a href="http://www.detours.biz/projects/prammen" target="_blank">http://www.detours.biz/projects/prammen</a> |  The "Swimming Cities of Serenissima", little fleets of rafts made with waste, salvaged materials and old furniture, is currently sailing on the seas of Europe.<br><a href="http://www.swimmingcities.org/" target="_blank">http://www.swimmingcities.org/</a> |  Some examples of lakeside cities. On the left, reconstitution of the museum of Unteruhldingen. On the right, coastal shantytown housing at Hanuabada in Port Moresby.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house</a> |
 The city of Venice is built on a huge forest of stilts made of wood. The stilts vary in diameter and their length varies between 2 to 10 meters.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice</a> |  "Lady Landfill Scyscrapers" by the serbian design team Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević and Milica Pihler is a proposal for 2011 Evolo Skyscraper Competition. Another solution to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch problem with the upper part of the structure acting as an island hosting self-sufficient human settlements.<br><a href="http://www.evolo.us/competition/lady-landfill-skyscraper/" target="_blank">http://www.evolo.us/competition/lady-landfill-skyscraper/</a> |  Project from 1990 for a linear floating city between the city of Osaka and Kyushu Island in Japan. If it were to have been done, this city would have formed a link of 400km between the city and the island. These are not high quality images, visuals of this project are hard to find, however the idea of using a floating city as a connection between multiple archipelagos seemed interesting to explore. |
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