"I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE": Selling the Unsustainable City

被引：6

作者：

Hayden, Dolores ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Yale Univ, Urban Hist Assoc, New Haven, CT 06520 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY | 2012年 / 38卷 / 01期

关键词：

highways; Highways and Horizons; General Motors; Futurama; 1939-1940 World's Fair; embodied space; Norman Bel Geddes; Eero Saarinen; Setha M. Low;

D O I：

10.1177/0096144211420635

中图分类号：

K [历史、地理];

学科分类号：

06 ;

摘要：

Seventy years ago, General Motors' Highways and Horizons exhibit at the World's Fair, designed by Norman Bel Geddes and Eero Saarinen, promoted demand for cars and federal highways without any concern for environmental sustainability, the theme of our 2010 conference. The main exhibit included a sequence of four parts (entrance ramps, map lobby, Futurama ride, and "intersection of 1960") where the viewer's perception of spatial scale was manipulated. Setha M. Low's theory of "embodied space" helps decode why movement through these diverse spaces influenced millions of Americans' views of transportation and urban form, a promotional success yet to be equaled by advocates of environmental sustainability.

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