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Sea City - circa 1971 Information provided from the TV21 Annual 1971, published by Century 21, UK. This exact model is even equipped with miniature ships and jetties. Dogger Bank lies twenty-five miles out in the North Sea between the winkle-stalls of Great Yarmouths seafront and the towering drilling-rigs of the Hewett offshore natural gas fields. Man is fast running out of living space. Only a quarter of our planet is dry land; the rest is ocean. And our growing numbers are filling that quarter to bursting-point. We have to find a new place to live if we are to survive. There are three choices: on other planets, underground, and on the sea. The last of these seems the easiest choice. With this in mind, the idea of Sea City has been born - and what a fantastic idea it is! The architects who have planned this amazing place have built beautiful scale models to show what they have in mind. Looking at the models, our thoughts catapult us into the future - to the day when Sea City could be a reality ... Clouds superimposed on a screen behind the illuminated model give a realistic impression of Sea City at dusk. The hoverferry from Great Yarmouth skims across the choppy sea and within minutes of embarking the gaunt outline of Sea City appears on the horizon. Our first impression is of a great curving concrete wall, stark and white, sweeping upwards and outwards from the grey sea. How beautiful it is-but how grim and inhospitable, too! Surely, 30,000 people cant live in a fortress like this? Artists impression of an inside view of Sea City, with islands and terraces. But then the hoverferry reaches a gap in the wall of concrete-and we see how wrong our first impression was. Inside the egg-shaped outer wall, sixteen tiers of gleaming, glass-fronted houses curve dramatically down to the smooth surface of the water. Their glittering lights reflect like a fireworks display on this sheltered lagoon. Dozens of triangular buildings float gently on the water, strung togeth