Old Man River's City project
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The Old Man River's City project was an architectural design created by Buckminster Fuller in 1971. The city of East St. Louis asked Fuller to envision a massive housing project for the city's 70,000 residents. Fuller responded with a circular multi-terraced dome with about 2,500 square feet (230 m2) of living space per family and a total capacity to house 125,000 occupants.
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