Paul Otlet dreamed of a Cité Mundiale: a model city that would govern the world. It would include the following buildings and institutions: a world government, a peace center, an arts center, an international court with jurisdiction over the entire world, and a set of other international bodies.
He wanted to build this world city around this central avenue: the Avenue of Nations. The city would never come to be. However, a small design of this ideal was developed by the modernist architect Victor Bourgeois in Tervuren, opposite the current Museum of Central Africa.
The Avenue of Nations is now known as Franklin Roosevelt Avenue.
Source: Pascal Verbeken, 2019, Brutopia
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