What was the Old Mans River City Project (circular cities)?
This was Fuller’s design science approach to solving the housing crisis in East St. Louis. Here are some excerpts from BF’s CRITICAL PATH: “For eminently mobile man, cities have become obsolete in terms of yesterday’s functions – warehousing both new and formerly manufactured goods and housing immigrant factory workers… “Old Man’s River City, undertaken for East St. Louis, Illinois takes its name from the song first sung by Paul Robeson fifty years ago, which dramatized the life of Afro-American blacks who lived along the south-of-St. louis banks of the Mississippi River… “I originally came to East St. Louis to discuss the design and possible realization of the Old Man River’s City, having been asked to do so by East St. Louis community leaders themselves… It is moon-crater-shaped: the crater’s truncated cone top opening is a half-mile in diameter, rim-to-rim, while the truncated mountain itself is a mile in diameter at its base ring. The city has a one-mile-diameter geodesic,
