2. Spectacular Portability: Cinema’s Exhibitory Complex, American Industry, and the 1939 World’s Fair

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-109
Keyword(s):  
World's Fair ◽  
American Industry

Mineralogical Exhibit at the World's Fair

1892 ◽  
Vol 34 (870supp) ◽  
pp. 13904-13905
Author(s):  
George F. Kunz
Keyword(s):  
World's Fair

Utopian Visions in United States Urbanism

Moreana ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 42 (Number 164) (4) ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
James M. McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New World ◽  
New Technology ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Garden Cities ◽  
Oneida Community ◽  
The City

America’s appeal to Utopian visionaries is best illustrated by the Oneida Community, and by Etienne Cabet’s experiment (Moreana 31/215 f and 43/71 f). A Messianic spirit was a determinant in the Puritans’ crossing the Atlantic. The Edenic appeal of the vast lands in a New World to migrants in a crowded Europe is obvious. This article documents the ambition of urbanists to preserve that rural quality after the mushrooming of towns: the largest proved exemplary in bringing the country into the city. New York’s Central Park was emulated by the open spaces on the grounds of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The garden-cities surrounding London also provided inspiration, as did the avenues by which Georges Haussmann made Paris into a tourist mecca, and Pierre L’Enfant’s designs for the nation’s capital. The author concentrates on two growing cities of the twentieth century, Los Angeles and Honolulu. His detailed analysis shows politicians often slow to implement the bold and costly plans of designers whose ambition was to use the new technology in order to vie with the splendor of the natural sites and create the “City Beautiful.” Some titles in the bibliography show the hopes of those dreamers to have been tempered by fears of “supersize” or similar drawbacks.

Cossacks at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Andrey Izyumov ◽  
Ekaterina Luchinina ◽  
Alexey Pokazeev ◽  
Alexanr Soklakov
Keyword(s):  
World's Fair ◽  
Chicago World's Fair

The Conflict of Caste and Class in an American Industry

1936 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles S. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
American Industry
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