Floating cities are a union of several Floating House) into a group. This makes it possible to set aside enough space to create shops, schools, kindergartens, and entertainment and office centers for the residents of the floating houses.
The essence of the phenomenon
The mass spread of self-sufficient forms of life in Northern Eurasia is held back not only by questions of heating and power supply, but no less by the absence of infrastructure — retail, educational, office, and entertainment centers. Meanwhile, this is entirely achievable in the format of organized cooperation among the residents of floating houses.
Size matters
Only in a sufficiently large floating city, with a developed system of management, does it make sense to organize infrastructure in specially designated floating buildings. Initially, families specializing in trade, medicine, education, business, and entertainment find it more economically sound to provide the corresponding services out of premises they themselves own.
The administrative issue
What is said to obstruct settlement of houses on the water is not so much climate as administrative barriers. It is not hard to notice that such barriers exist not only for houses on water, but for any new construction, any business, indeed any innovation in living arrangements in the most ordinary city. To understand how to work with this phenomenon, one must identify its causes. Very many people, on the one hand, are not exactly "the brightest stars in the sky," while on the other hand they want to earn a stable income. The combination of these two factors leads them to build careers not in business or in a "free" labor market, but in administrations or law-enforcement agencies vested with inspection powers.
Concentrating in sufficient numbers and ensuring their own reproduction ("labor dynasties" in unproductive sectors), such people affect the moral state of society, activating — depending on the historical era and current circumstances — various ethical motivations toward excessive, unjustified redistribution of material assets, allowing them to occupy key positions detached from their real productive capabilities. The key to resolving this issue is a genuinely leading position. A floating city is conceived precisely as a community strong enough — first and foremost through real resource and economic autonomy — that local administrators are forced to "approach its interests quite differently."
Mobility
A city is able to migrate to the territory of an administration it can do business with. And if that administration suddenly starts "raising its appetite," as happens not only with officials and inspection bodies but also with landlords in commercial real estate, it can migrate further, choosing an administration able, for a reasonable price, to help with connection to the shore power grid, waste disposal, and residents' registration — for example, through inexpensive lease of adjoining agricultural land, on which a minimal property tax is levied, arrangements with local emergency medical services, and rerouting of the local school bus.
Useful links
Floating Cities, VK community.