Have you ever dreamed of living aboard an aerial city , a billet that hovers well above the background ? Take a gander at these imaginary cities , from artist who imagined a future tense that ’s anything but establish .
The word-painting above is a work of ~ aksu at DeviantArt .
Ten Thousand Years From Now, illustration by Louis Biedermann (Odgen Standard-Examiner, Odgen, UT, 4 February 2025)
“ Our example limn one of the future cities float high in the air , several miles above the earth . The question of sustaining such a large body in a rareified atmosphere will prove to be of little difficulty to our future electrical engineers . Just as we construct leviathans of the sea to - daylight , some of them weigh as much as 50,000 tons we shall construct entire city weighing 1000000000 of ton , which will be held in place not by gas balloons , propellor , or the alike archaic machinery , but by means of gravitational attraction - vacate gimmick . Already experiments have been made whereby it has become possible to reduce the weightiness of substances by electrical forces . ” – accord to the original article availableon Paleofuture .
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The Flying City of Venus, by S. Zhitomorsky, from the Soviet magazine “Technika Molodezhi” (Youth Technics), 1971/9
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Thesis Project 11 Utopia and Thesis Project 5 Oxygen Tanks by Tolgahan Güngör
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Cloud Nine, by Buckminster Fuller, ca. 1960
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Cloud City from Star Wars
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Sky City in the Clouds, by Madison Murphy
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A Floating Metropolis by Robert McCall, 1971
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City In The Clouds, by *Gate-To-Nowhere
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Concepts by John Berkey, the creator of the original poster art for the Star Wars trilogy
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Frank R. Paul’s artwork on the cover of Air Wonder Stories, November 1929
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Bonus: The city of Jetsons (1962-1963)
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