1939 World's Fair
Trylon and Perisphere
Inside big sphere -- exhibit called "Democracity" -- a vision of the city of tomorrow
GM Exhibit "Futurama" -- scale diorama of the USA of the future (1960s)
all about highways
includes a Radiant City redesign of NYC (diorama)
MUST FIND PICTURES etc
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/frame.htm (THIS IS THE BEST!)
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~abh9h/Real/Audio/39wf/futuramahighres200.ram (streaming 3 min video about the Futurama exhibit!)
http://historyproject.ucdavis.edu/imageapp.php?Major=GP&Minor=W (2ND BEST! lots of pictures)
http://websyte.com/alan/nywf.htm (lots of links to other pages)
http://www.pmphoto.to/Theme.htm (some basic b&w photos)
http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/new_york.html (has bibliography, could be interesting)
http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/39fair.html (great collection of postcards and ads for the Fair)
"Moses loved the public and hated the people"
Robert A.M. Stern: "1930s was the last time Americans thought that the Republic could be saved by owning a dishwasher, or a vacuum cleaner, or an automobile" (1950s were an afterglow of this idea, where it briefly resurfaced)
LeC -- "must move beyond our sadness for the Paradise Lost of the pedestrian street, and merge with the car, so as to transcend the car" -- find source
LeC -- post-WWII made 2nd visit to NYC to begin work on United Nations headquarters (Secretariat & Assembly Building)
LeC didn't want it to be in New York, or if it was wanted it on an island or something.
Played the role of the Evil Spirit in this debate" (Robert A.M. Stern)
Secretariat building was based on a design by Le Corbusier but not ultimately executed by him-- http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=114294
"Le Corbusier was one of the architects appointed to plan the permanent buildings for the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The Secretariat, a glass-sided slab which is now a distinguished part of the New York City skyline along the East River, was primarily his design. Le Corbusier's UN building is typical of the International Style."
http://architecture.about.com/library/blunited_nations-corbusier.htm
"If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?" -- find source, quoted by Moses
"Better Housing Makes Better Citizens" -- sign carried by protesters of Title I destruction
re: Title I slum clearance:
novelist Bernard Mellon (?) "In New York, who needs the atomic bomb. If you walk away from a place, they tear it down."
"We wouldn't have any American economy if we didn't have the automobile" etc etc -- RM (find larger quote)
RM: "The individual has to yield to the needs of the entire country"
Interviewer: "And is there any other way out?"
RM: "No, there is no other way out."
"Cities are created by and for traffic. A city without traffic is a ghost-town." --RM
picture of JJ and protesters w/ x's over their eyeglasses
JJ was arrested & charged w/ riot, incitemjent to riot, etc etc -- check charges