Old Man River's City project

The Old Man River's City project was an architectural design created by Buckminster Fuller in 1971.

[1] Fuller was asked to design the structure by the city of East St. Louis.

The total capacity of the building, a circular multi-terraced dome, would be 125,000 occupants.

From the esplanade the truncated mountain cone slopes downwardly, inward and outward, to ground level 500 feet (150 m) below.

All the inwardly, downwardly sloping sides of the moon crater's terraced cone are used for communal life; its outward-sloping, tree-planted terraces are entirely for private life dwelling.

Fuller's model for the city
R. Buckminster Fuller stands in front of a depiction of his domed city design at its first public showing at a community meeting in East St. Louis, Illinois.