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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world-wide web. Conceptualizing exhibitions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities undertakes a transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed within the European metropolis. Focusing on five such expositions – the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung (1896), the fifth Parisian Exposition Universelle (1900), the Franco-British Exhibition in London (1908), the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (1924/25), and the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris (1931) – this award-winning book examines their specific aims and aspirations, evolving forms and execution, and the public debates they engendered. Who shaped these mega-events, how were exposition venues inscribed into the urban fabric, what legacies did they bequeath? Taken as dense textures stretched over time, these expositions undergo both a close hermeneutic reading and broad spatial analysis. Fleeting Cities weaves extensive empirical research with underlying theoretical concerns, investigating their individual meanings in a new form of transnational network analysis.
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Franco-British Exhibition (1908 : London, England), Exhibitions, Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung (1896), Cities and towns, Modern Civilization, Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France), British Empire Exhibition (1924 : Wembley, England), Civilization, Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), History, British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925 : Wembley, London, England), Europe, civilization, Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris, France)People
Georg Simmel, Wilhelm II, Ludwig Max Goldberger, Imre Kiralfy, Lawrence Weaver, Hubert Lyautey, May EythTimes
19th century, 20th century, fin-de-siècleShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Fleeting cities: imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe
2010, Palgrave Macmillan
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in English
0230221645 9780230221642
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