Some coves along the coast become floating cities at the weekend, with scores of vessels moored together and parties in full swing.

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In the early nineties, after traveling the world and drawing as he went, Stephen published his second book, Floating Cities, garnering more acclaim.

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Finally, in several decades, floating cities.

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It's not that easy to find, in part because there's no one entity or country that oversees or regulates the industry with its fleet of ships that are like mini cities floating at sea.

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Mr. GINSBERG: Angel-headed hipsters, burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.

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