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Lex explores some of his ideas for the cities of his story, which are great rotating cylinders in geostationary orbit around Earth, connected to the Earth by space elevators. To aid in this discussion, Lex explores some real-world designs of orbital habitats, including the O\\u2019Neill Cylinder, the McKendree Cylinder and Kalpana One. He also touches on arcologies and graphene.