A floating wooden school that will soon join the world's first truly floating city. Image: NLE
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Makoko is home to some 100,000 people, and that number is growing as people continue to flock to the oil-rich nation's capital—all while the storms are worsening. Climbing populations, constant flooding, higher sea levels, worse and more unpredictable storms will make life miserable for millions, and similar trends abound in other nations: Bangladesh, India, Vietnam. Et cetera.So NLE wants to re-engineer communities like Makako's to be resilient to constant flooding and changing sea levels. They're working to create an organized Water World-style city existing peacefully atop the waves, minus Kevin Costner and roving bands of melodramatic oil-bandits. Here's their plan for phase two, via Design Boom:
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