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A well known environmentally conscious Belgian designer, Vincent Callebaut has come up with the idea of a 'Lilypad City'.

Callebaut has designed a self-sufficient haven and a long-term benefit for climate change affected refugees and coastal cities around the world. According to Callebaut's design, the city would be a floating self sustainable home for people, with a lake at its centre to collect and purify rainwater. Moreover, they will probably showcase a well defined landscape like mountains etc. so inhabitants can have a change in scenery.

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Each 'Lilypad', an amphibious city, could house 50000 inhabitants who would depend upon solar, wind and hydro-power energies for their needs. The city will have no roads or cars and the whole point of it would be to enable a peaceful co-existence between humans and nature.

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As reported by the Daily Mail, Callebaut said: "The design of the city is inspired by the shape of the great Amazonia Victoria Regia Lilypad. Some countries spend billions of pounds working on making their beaches and dams bigger and stronger. But the Lilypad project is actually a long term solution to the problem of the rising water level."

Scientists researching for long term solutions for global warming, found that the water level of oceans across the world would rise by three feet in a decade. This could pose a major threat for many important coastal cities like New York or for that matter, Mumbai which is already witnessing floods owing to an erratic rainfall pattern.

Just a dream or truly real? We just have to wait and see whether this dream project unfolds.