Tiphares

It's pretty well known by now that James Cameron is going to be making his own film version of the manga Battle Angel Alita, and God knows what his cybertronic gladiators and bounty hunters are going to look like. I'll save that for another day, but interestingly enough - I came across this blog regarding the setting:

http://urbanfloop.blogspot.com/2009/06/of-ships-dreams-tiphares.html

... which had this to say about Tiphares when comparing the floating city to the giant landfills and scrap yards of India and Bangladesh...

"these terrains survive on the waste dumped by the floating world that upholds its morals of sustainability and equality by outsourcing the opposites to far off horizons away from its cone of vision."