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ID: 700089827
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700089827
Record Type: Built Work
Triton City (unbuilt project; Buckminster Fuller; designed 1968; undetermined (World, Top of the TGN hierarchy))
Note: Concept for an anchored floating city for 100,000 people that would be located just offshore and connected with bridges to the mainland.
Titles:
Triton City (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
Triton City: Prototype Floating Community (C,U,English,U,U)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
unbuilt project [300126989] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications), projects (artistic concepts))
floating community [300456579]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), inhabited places, <settlements by condition>)
floating buildings [300007967]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by design>)

Classifications:
architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: designed 1968

Creator Display:
Buckminster Fuller [preferred]
designer Fuller, R. Buckminster (American architect and inventor, 1895-1983) [500015697]
Locations:
Current: undetermined [7544559] (Geographic)
Display Materials: N/A
Dimensions: N/A
General Subject:
undetermined (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: fortifications, transportation, bridges, barriers, military, urban planning, and engineering works
Sources and Contributors:
Triton City........ [BWR,VP]
........ BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
........ Avery Index (1963-)
Triton City: Prototype Floating Community........ [VP]
........ U.S. Department of Commerce: National Technical Reports Library (2000-) PB180051
........ Avery Index (1963-)
Subject: ....... [VP,BWR,AVERY]
....................... BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
....................... Gattupalli, Floating Cities (2023)
....................... Avery Index (1963-)
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Gattupalli, Floating Cities (2023)
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