There is endless potential for science, technology, and engineering to enhance the quality of life for city dwellers, but there can be no progress without an agenda.
The potential for science and engineering to enhance, alter, or radically change cities is real, but contingent upon social, political, and economic developments.
Creating a city-sized dome would present some mind-blowing engineering challenges. It would not only have to support its own weight and expand and contract to cope with the heat of the sun, but it would also have to withstand stresses caused by rain, snow, ice and wind.
From the Eden Project, the world's largest geodesic domes, to a tiny factory in Germany, which manufactures a revolutionary plastic, the idea of a city-sized dome could finally become a reality.