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The Dome over Manhattan was a 1959 proposal for a 3-kilometer-diameter geodesic domed city covering Midtown Manhattan by the architects Buckminster Fuller and Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc.

Fuller expanded on his earlier work designing geodesic domes and advocating for decreased use of resources, and made a variety of claims to support the "Dome Over Manhattan," such as that it would reduce energy usage in NYC to 20% of what it was in 1960.

The concept inspired the science fiction writer Ben Bova's story "Manhattan Dome" in the September 1968 issue of Amazing Stories, subsequently expanded into the 1976 novella City of Darkness. A Fuller dome over Manhattan also appeared in John Brunner's 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar.

References

1. Carlson, Jen. "The 1960 Plan To Put A Dome Over Midtown Manhattan". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 2019-05-12. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
2. "A 1960s Plan to Cover Midtown Manhattan With a Giant Geodesic Dome". 6sqft. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
3. ^ Budds, Diana (2016-03-31). "How Buckminster Fuller Made A Dome Over Manhattan Sound Sensible". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-03-14.

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