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Reports & Books
Space@Sea: Floating Islands Development and Deployment Roadmap
Author: Karina Czapiewska and Fen Yu Lin
Space@Sea: A catalogue of technical requirements and best practices for the design of Living@Sea
Author: Karina Czapiewska & Fen-Yu Lin
Space@Sea: Business Case Living@Sea
Author: Bart Roeffen, Karina Czapiewska & Fen-Yu Lin
Space@Sea: Demonstrator Design
Author: Barbara Dal Bo Zanon, Karina Czapiewska & David Kirkwood
Space@Sea: Integrated Design and Realisation of Integrated Model
Author: David Kirkwood
KIVI: Floating Cities
Author: Jan van Kessel & Barbara Dal Bo Zanon
Floating City IJmeer
Author: Deltasync
Environmental Assessment Report: French Polynesia
Author: Blue21
Adaptive urban development
Author: Rutger de Graaf
Seasteading Implementation Plan
Author: DeltaSync
Realising a floating city
Author: Kelvin Ko
Cyclicity: A new direction to protect deltas and preserve marine ecosystems
Author: K.M. Czapiewska, B.Roeffen & R.E. de Graaf
Air cushion Supported Mega-Floaters
Author: Jan van Kessel
Transportation systems in floating citie
Author: Barend Vreugdehil
Artificial Islands in The Law of the Sea
Author: Francesca Galea
De Drijvende Nutseenheid
Author: Deltasync
Modulair
Author: Blue21
Innovations in urban water management to reduce the vulnerability of cities
Author: Rutger de Graaf
Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Governance, Design and Development in Coastal Delta Cities
Author: Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
Book Review: "The Urbanisation of the Sea"
Author: Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
INNOZOWA public report (in Dutch)
Author: INNOZOWA consortium
Hydroelastic analysis of a multi-module Very Large Floating Structure
Author: Dorette Regout
How tsunami transmission is influenced by floating city design parameters
Author: Simone C. Geerlings
Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities
Author: Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
A Modular Unified Model of Ship Manoeuvering in Irregular Wind Generated Waves
Author: Lindert van Tongeren
Scientific Articles
Potential of Floating Production for delta and coastal cities
Author: Barbara Dal Bo Zanon et al
Blauwe oplossingsruimte haalt Nederland uit de impasse
Author: Rutger de Graaf
Reducing global land scarcity with floating urban development and food production
Author: Bart Roeffen et al
Receptivity to transformative change in the Dutch urban water management Sector
Author: Rutger de Graaf et al
Potential of floating productive development for delta cities
Author: Barbara Dal Bo Zanon et al
Perspectives on innovation A survey of the Dutch urban water sector
Author: Rutger de Graaf et al
Innovative Water Quality and Ecology Monitoring Using Underwater Unmanned Vehicles: Feild Applications, Challenges & Feedback from Water Managers
Author: Rui L. Pedroso de Lima, Floris C. Boogard, Rutger de Graaf
Mapping Opportunities for Floating Urban Development in Port Cities
Author: Rutger de Graaf et al
Sustainable Urban Transformations & Sustainability Transitions; Conceptual Framework & Casestudy
Author: R.E. de Graaf, L. Ernst, Gert-Joost Peek, Derk Loorbach
Innovative floating bifacial photovoltaic solutions for inland water areas
Author: Bart Roeffen & Fen-Yu Lin
In-Situ Water Quality Observations under a Large-Scale Floating Solar Farm Using Sensors and Underwater Drones
Author: Rui L. Pedroso de Lima et al
Legal Issues for Artificial Floating Islands
Author: Fen-Yu Lin et al
Legal Framework for Sustainable Floating City Development: A Case Study of the Netherlands
Author: Fen-Yu (Vicky) Lin et al
Impacts of floating urbanization on water quality and aquatic ecosystems: a study based on in situ data and observations
Author: Rui L. Pedroso de Lima et al
Professional Publications
Global Trends in the development of maritime floating cities and future developments
Author: Karina Czapiewska
Blue21: ‘Onze toekomst is op het water’
Author: Karina Czapiewska
A Blue Quantum Leap: What Governance Options Do We Have?
Author: Rutger De Graaf
Weinig invloed op ecosystemen onder drijvende objecten
Author: Rutger De Graaf et al
The floating city as an ecosystem
Author: Van Uffelen, C. Rentmeester, S.
Building Cities on the Sea
Author: Jan van Kessel
Rette sich, wer kann. Können wir?
Author: Rutger De Graaf
Creating floating cities- Utopia or a new perspective for the future?
Author: Rutger De Graaf & Karina Czapiewska
Floating Solutions: A new tool in Dutch Delta Technology
Author: Netherlands Water Partnership
Bouwen op het water draagt bij aan oplossing voor de woningnood
Author: Vastgoedmarkt
Is wonen op het water het antwoord op de stijgende zeespiegel?
Author: EenVandaag
Embracing a Wetter Future, the Dutch Turn to Floating Homes
Author: Yale Environment 360
Finest Floating explores potential of floating structures for Helsinki-Tallinn metropole
Author: Dutch Water Sector
Videos
Presentations
Floating Cities are no longer science fiction
Author: Blue21
Floating Cities for human and ecological progress monitored real time by aquatic drones
Author: Rutger de Graaf
Capacity Building
Author: Blue21
Our Services
Author: Blue21
Our Vision
Author: Blue21
Blue Revolution: A perspective for human and ecological development in the 21st century
Author: Rutger de Graaf
The impact of floating urbanisation on water quality and ecology
Author: Rutger de Graaf
A Blue Century on the Horizon: Paving the Waves Keynote
Author: Rutger de Graaf
Podcasts
Climate Science and Seasteading Solutions
Bart Roeffen- Blue Frontiers Podcast
Floating Real-Estate
Karina Czapiewska- Blue Frontiers Podcast
Floating Cities with a positive impact on the planet
Rutger De Graaf- Blue Frontiers Podcast
Should we build new cities at sea?
BBC Podcast
Real World Floating Architecture
Karina Czapiewska - Seasteading Podcast
"Groen, groener… blauw" - drijvend bouwen
Rutger de Graaf & Nanne de Ru - de Architect NL
Maritime Urbanism and the Design of Floating Cities
Rutger de Graaf for the Deep Blue Institute
Radio
Is de stad van de toekomst een drijvende stad?
BNR Nieuwsradio
Adpating to a warmer world
BBC Radio
Karina Czapiewska van Blue21 legt uit wat eer getest wordt.
BNR Nieuwsradio
Schiphol op zee goed idee?
NPO Radio
Een stad op drijvende pontons
BNR Nieuwsradio
Lectures
Inaugural lecture ‘Blue Revolution’
Rutger de Graaf
INDYMO onderwaterdrone
Rutger de Graaf
KIVI Symposium – Looking back from 2050
Jan van Kessel
Environmental Framework for Floating Islands
Karina Czapiewska
Architectural Opportunities
Bart Roeffen
World Conference on Floating Solutions 2020
Rutger De Graaf
World Conference on Floating Solutions 2020
Bart Roeffen
World Conference on Floating Solutions
Fen-Yu (Vicky) Lin
Floating Urban Development in Baltic Regions
Karina Czapiewska
JMSE Webinar | Floating Solutions for Addressing Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Cities
Rutger De Graaf-van Dinther