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One of my favorite promises of Trump 2024 - bringing back World's Fairs
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:55 pm
Here is what American cities looked like a century ago:
At the turn of the 20th century, American cities transformed swathes of their centers into huge architectural displays — all for great exhibitions called the World's Fairs...
St. Louis had Venetian gondolas!
What was it all for?
They were celebrations of humanity. Nations came together to showcase advances in culture and technology inside great "pavilions".
Cities took turns hosting them. Some of the best were in Paris, and there was a lot of one-upmanship between nations — especially as the geopolitical torch was passing from Europe to the New World.
Fairs were sometimes opportunities for cities to bounce back from disaster. Chicago put on maybe the greatest ever event, just 22 years after being gutted by an inferno.
The fairs remind us what great architectural design could have done for American cities. They once sparked the "City Beautiful movement": a short-lived philosophy that believed architectural beauty could foster social cohesion in cities.
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At the turn of the 20th century, American cities transformed swathes of their centers into huge architectural displays — all for great exhibitions called the World's Fairs...
St. Louis had Venetian gondolas!
What was it all for?
They were celebrations of humanity. Nations came together to showcase advances in culture and technology inside great "pavilions".
Cities took turns hosting them. Some of the best were in Paris, and there was a lot of one-upmanship between nations — especially as the geopolitical torch was passing from Europe to the New World.
Fairs were sometimes opportunities for cities to bounce back from disaster. Chicago put on maybe the greatest ever event, just 22 years after being gutted by an inferno.
The fairs remind us what great architectural design could have done for American cities. They once sparked the "City Beautiful movement": a short-lived philosophy that believed architectural beauty could foster social cohesion in cities.
c/o Culture Critic on X
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:56 pm to anc
Liberator will be along soon...
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:58 pm to anc
In New Orleans we got boobies!
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:58 pm to anc
When was the last World’s Fair?
I went to the one in New Orleans in 84 when I was a kid
I went to the one in New Orleans in 84 when I was a kid
Posted on 4/18/24 at 4:59 pm to anc
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One of my favorite promises of Trump 2024
One of your "favorite"?
Posted on 4/18/24 at 5:05 pm to anc
quote:
One of my favorite promises of Trump 2024 - bringing back World's Fairs
Hooray! More spending!
Posted on 4/18/24 at 5:06 pm to anc
These were great when America had a functional economy.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 5:08 pm to anc
I was there.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 5:09 pm to anc
That will be awesome. Especially with no fat people.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 5:18 pm to anc
World Fairs were just masquerades to destroy old world architecture and buildings...
Posted on 4/18/24 at 5:33 pm to anc
Just go to EPCOT and you get the same effect.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 7:05 pm to anc
New Orleans has hosted two world's fairs, and both of them helped rescue the city, even though they both were financial flops.
The 1984 fair brought a wave of revitalization, which helped sustain the city for the next 20 years.
The 1884 fair helped pull New Orleans out of the post-war economic malaise and helped establish it as a destination city among "must see" attractions in America.
The 1984 fair brought a wave of revitalization, which helped sustain the city for the next 20 years.
The 1884 fair helped pull New Orleans out of the post-war economic malaise and helped establish it as a destination city among "must see" attractions in America.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 7:18 pm to anc
i found this
it sounds like they went all climate change and gave up on the world of tomorrow stuff
quote:
How the ‘World of Tomorrow’ Became a Thing of the Past
What happened to the World’s Fair? On April 30th, which marks the 75th anniversary of the 1939 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, the question becomes especially poignant. How did the global cultural events that inaugurated broadcast television (New York 1939), built the Eiffel Tower (Paris 1889), and introduced the world to the Ferris Wheel (Chicago 1893) disappear?
Actually, they haven’t: World’s Fairs haven’t gone anywhere, it’s just America that has moved on.
The next World’s Fair is scheduled for Spring 2015 in Milan Italy, but expo-goers who are looking to catch the latest glimpse at the “world of tomorrow,” will be disappointed. “A lot of Americans imagine World’s Fairs as they were in the 1930s and the 1960s, but the medium has changed,” says World’s Fair consultant Urso Chappell. “Whereas the focus was on progress or the space age and things like that at one time, the themes tend to be more environmental now,” he adds.
With smaller scope and a concentration on solving problems rather than trumpeting triumphs, World’s Fairs just don’t capture the imagination like they used to. Milan’s theme — Feeding the planet, energy for life — focuses on ending hunger and developing food sustainability. By contrast, the 1939 World’s Fair’s Dawn of a New Day slogan exuded aspirational wonder and 1964’s (which had its 50th anniversary last week), centered on Peace Through Understanding.
Then there’s the problem of proximity. There hasn’t been a World’s Fair in North America since 1986 in Vancouver. During the Fairs’ heydays, wealthy and middle class families would make pilgrimages across the seas to meccas of modernization to see the wonders firsthand, but the internet put an end to that. “I don’t know today how a World’s Fair can be viable, because everybody has a camera in their pocket,” says Louise Weinberg, World’s Fair Archive Manager at the Queens Museum. A quick search on your phone has replaced an expensive trip to a foreign country.
Cost plays a significant role too. Unlike the Olympics, which occasionally have made money for their host cities, there’s no profit from hosting a Fair. “Running a Fair is a losing proposition, you don’t do it to make money” says Weinberg.
Prestige was the prime motivator for hosting Worlds Fairs. Some of New York’s most prominent political figures like Robert Moses, Fiorello LaGuardia and Grover Whalen performed Herculean feats (and spent gobs of money) in order to bring the two Fairs to New York. Now the U.S. leaves the bidding to developing or resurgent countries looking to impress the rest of the world.
But while the U.S hash’t hosted a Fair in decades, it’s still participating in them. Barack Obama announced more than a year in advance that America will participate in Milan’s Expo in 2015, and U.S. cities are already bidding to host ones much further out. “There’s groups in Minneapolis looking to [host the Worlds Fair in] 2023, there’s groups in San Francisco and Houston looking at 2025, so hopefully we will see a World’s Fair in North America sometime soon,” says World’s Fair consultant Chappell. To avoid slipping from “the world of tomorrow” to “the world of the past,” the new U.S. Fairs will have to harken back to the old New York Fairs’ sense of wonder and aspiration.
it sounds like they went all climate change and gave up on the world of tomorrow stuff
Posted on 4/18/24 at 10:30 pm to anc
Except now they would be DEI liberal propaganda nightmares.
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