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The Dome over Manhattan, a 1959 proposal for a 3-km-diameter geodesic domed city covering Midtown Manhattan by the architects Buckminster Fuller and Thomas C. Howard. Fueller made a variety of claims to support the dome,such as that it would reduce energy usage in NYC to 20% of what i was in 1960.

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