Collaborator Eva Westermeier Consultants Prof. Dr. Jörg H. Gleiter / Dr.-Ing. Norbert Korrek Chair Architectural Theory Place Bauhaus-University Weimar 2005

UTOPIEN DER METROPOLE
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How World Trade Fairs changed our imagination of the city

As one of the first globalized event the world trade fair in 1852 and its successors developed into a motor of conceptions for the future of our cities and our ways of living. The essay reconstructs this aspect of world trade fairs and searches for its coherences and influences on architecure and urban planning in the 20th century.