One Architect's Spectacular Vision for a Spherical Subterranean City

New Yorkers would weather nuclear attack in an underground metropolis.


Imagine if underneath major metropolises there were spherical nuclear shelters that contained more cities—mini-Manhattans buried thousands of feet in the ground.

In the 1960s, architect and city planner Oscar Newman rendered what such a fantasy would look like beneath New York City.

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