Name: Jacque Fresco on the Discovery Channel
Uploaded: 2017-08-10T14:20:57.000Z
Duration: 3 min 21 s
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[Narrator] For nearly all of his 86 years,

architect Jacque Fresco has been designing cities of the future.

Fresco's structures all derive from a simple form

[Jacque Fresco] When I was about 12 years old I was looking at a gear

on a table, and I saw the 'cities of the future.'

I think all inventions are based upon experiences like that.

[Narrator] Fresco believes that civilization will be forced

to colonize the sea, if land becomes uninhabitable.

[Fresco] The Earth can only support so many people, comfortably.

And if the population exceeds the capacity of the land,

[Narrator] Working from his Florida studio,

Fresco has spent decades making detailed drawings

experimenting continually with new materials.

Fresco's even developed plans for transporting the structures out to sea.

They'll be constructed out of modular sections,

and then towed to their final ocean destinations.

Other structures will be made from high-tech materials called memory metal.

[Fresco] These memory metals can be distorted, twisted,

and then when a certain temperature is provided,

that memory metal goes right back to its original shape.

[Narrator] So buildings made from memory metals

can be compressed into small cubes for towing,

and then, snapped back to size upon arrival.

you will see a building erected before your eyes,

[Narrator] Fresco's vision goes beyond architecture.

He sees his cities as tools for fostering humanistic values.

[Fresco] I feel that environment shapes our values,

the people we know, the people we identify with.