NOTE: I've taken this passage from Bucky Fuller's book about the tetrahedronal city because it symbolizes to me, not only a sustainable life-style pattern, but of the ancient wisdom of the global civilization of pyramids. We, Americans, need to tap into the eternal wisdom and art of the pyramid culture so that we can find the "new order of the ages." Following the wisdom Maslow's hierarchy of needs that I have placed on the dollar bill, will lead us into a new economic order envisioned by Fuller of creating a world managment committee. With the collective wealth of America, it is now time to build an experimental pyramid city. The Japanese are developing such a comcept for the Tokyo Bay, the Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid.
We find that a tetrahedronal city, to house a million people, is both technologically and economically feasible. Such a verti- cal-tetrahedronal-city can be constructed with all of its three hundred thousand families each having balconied "outside" apartments of two thousand square feet floor space. AH of the machinery necessary to its operation will be housed inside the tetrahedron. It is found that such a one million passenger tetrahedronal city is so structurally efficient, and therefore so relatively light, that together with its hollow box sectioned reinforced con crete foundations it can float.
Such tetrahedronal floating cities would measure two miles to an edge, and can be floated in a triangularly patterned canal. This will make the whole structure earthquake-proof. The whole city can be floated out into the ocean to any point and anchored. The depth of its founda tions will go below the turbulence level of the seas so that the floating tetrahedronal is land will be, in effect, a floating triangular atoll. Its two mile long "boat" foundations will constitute landing strips for jet airplanes. Its interior two mile harbor will provide refuge for the largest and smallest ocean vessels. The total stuctural and mechanical materials involved in production of a number of such cities are within feasibility magnitude of the already operating metals manufacturing capabilities of any one company of the several major industrial nations around the earth.
The tetrahedron city may start with a thousand occupants and grow symmetrically to hold millions without changing overall shape though always providing each family with 200 sq. ft. of floor space. With drawal of materials from obsolete buildings on the land will permit the production of enough of these floating cities to support frequently spaced floating cities of various sizes around the oceans of the earth. This will permit mid-ocean cargo transferring and therewith an extraordinary increase of efficiency of the inter-distribution of the world's raw and finished products as well as of the passenger traffic. Three quarters of the earth is covered by water. Man is clearly intent on penetrating those world-around ocean waters in every way to work both their ocean bot toms and their marine life and chemistry resources. Such ocean passage shortening habitats of ever transient humanity will permit his individual flying sailing, economic stepping stone travel around the whole Earth in many directions.