| seasteading needs to compete with the existing land reclamation (land fill) market | cost per square meter in land reclamation of USD 800 is usual | floating structures can compete with the land fill market already | advanced cement composite technology | New-Atlantis™ | New-VENICE™ | floating city | @nautilusmaker | oceanic real estate paradigm shift | monaco breakwater | mulberry harbor | understand floating real estate | building lots on the water |
Construction Activities During the 21st Century will be Dominated by Concrete Sea Structures | P.K.Mehta |
“Creating Land from the Sea - Market” that exists already.
This is the Market that seasteading needs to compete with ( what needs to be done to make seasteading investment worthy )
Land amounts added | by land fill projects per countrs |
- Bangladesh – about 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi) in total and has 12,000 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi) potential (8% of total area) up to 12 metres (39 ft) depth in the territorial sea area.[23]
- Netherlands – ( Main article: Land reclamation in the Netherlands )
about 1/6 (almost 17%) of the entire country, or about 7,000 square kilometres (2,700 sq mi) in total, has been reclaimed from the sea, lakes, marshes and swamps. The province of Flevoland has almost completely been reclaimed from the Zuiderzee.
- South Korea – As of 2006, 38 percent or 1,550 square kilometres (600 sq mi) of coastal wetlands reclaimed, including 400 square kilometres (150 sq mi) at Saemangeum. Songdo International Business district, the largest private development in history, is a large-scale reclamation project built entirely on tidal mudflats.
- Singapore – 20 percent of the original size or 135 square kilometres (52 sq mi). As of 2003, plans for 99 square kilometres (38 sq mi) more are to go ahead,[24] despite the fact that disputes persist with Malaysia over Singapore’s extensive land reclamation works.[25]
- Hong Kong – ( Main article: Land reclamation in Hong Kong )
Praya Reclamation Scheme began in the late 1860s and consisted of two stages totaling 20 to 24 hectares (50 to 60 acres).[14] Hong Kong Disneyland, Hong Kong International Airport, and its predecessor, Kai Tak Airport, were all built on reclaimed land. In addition, much reclamation has taken place in prime locations on the waterfront on both sides of Victoria Harbour. This has raised environmental issues of the protection of the harbour which was once the source of prosperity of Hong Kong, traffic congestion in the Central district,[26] as well as the collusion of the Hong Kong Government with the real estate developers in the territory.[27][28]
In addition, as the city expands, new towns in different decades were mostly built on reclaimed land, such as Tuen Mun, Tai Po, Shatin-Ma On Shan, West Kowloon, Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O.
- Macau – 170% of the original size or 17 square kilometres (6.6 sq mi)[29]
- Jakarta , Indonesia – Giant Sea Wall Jakarta is part of a massive coastal development project at Jakarta Bay, Indonesia.
- Manila Bay , Philippines – additional 626 hectares along the eastern coast of Manila Bay created in the 1990s[30] to the 88-hectare Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex. The shore road of Manila (Roxas Boulevard) is actually reclaimed land, as well as its extension road to Cavite (Manila-Cavite Expressway / Aguinaldo Boulevard).
- Mumbai , India – An archipelago of originally seven separate islands were joined together by land reclamation over a span of five centuries. This was done to develop Mumbai as a harbour city.
- Monaco – 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi) out of 2.05 square kilometres (0.79 sq mi), or one fifth of Monaco comes from land taken from the sea, mainly in the neighborhoods of Fontvieille, La Condamine, and Larvotto/Bas Moulins.
- Tokyo Bay, Japan – 249 square kilometres (96 sq mi)[31] including the entirety of Odaiba artificial island.
- Kobe, Japan – 23 square kilometres (8.9 sq mi) (1995).
- Bahrain – 76.3% of original size of 410 square kilometres (160 sq mi) (1931–2007).[ citation needed ][32]
- New Zealand – significant areas of land totalling several hundred hectares have been reclaimed along the harbourfronts of Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. In Dunedin – which in its early days was nicknamed “Mudedin” – around 2.5 square kilometres (0.97 sq mi), including much of the inner city and suburbs of Dunedin North, South Dunedin and Andersons Bay is reclaimed from the Otago Harbour, and a similar area in the suburbs of St Clair and St Kilda is reclaimed swampland. The international airports serving Auckland and Wellington have had significant reclamation for runway use.[33][34]
- United Arab Emirates – Dubai has a total of four reclaimed islands (the Palm Jumeirah, Jebal Ali, The Burj al Arab Island, and The World Islands), with a fifth under construction (the Palm Deira). There are several man made islands in Abu Dhabi, such as Yas Island and Al Lulu Island.