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Floating city may refer to:
In science fiction , floating cities are settlements that strictly use buoyancy to remain in the atmosphere of a planet. However the term generally refers to any city that is flying, hovering, or otherwise suspended in the atmosphere.
In Jonathan Swift 's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels , Swift envisioned Laputa , an island city that floated in the sky . The island was suggested to levitate above the Earth by use of the force of magnetism . In the 1920s, Hugo Gernsback speculated about floating cities of the future, suggesting that 10,000 years hence "the city the size of New York will float several miles above the surface of the earth, where the air is cleaner and purer and free from disease carrying bacteria." To stay in the air, "f