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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031050214
Author : Kevin Fox Gotham
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814732069
Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology Section Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter—all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham explains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. Gotham begins in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina amid the whirlwind of speculation about the rebuilding of the city and the dread of outsiders wiping New Orleans clean of the grit that made it great. He continues with the origins of Carnival and the Mardi Gras celebration in the nineteenth century, showing how, through careful planning and promotion, the city constructed itself as a major tourist attraction. By examining various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale Gotham ultimately establishes New Orleans as one of the originators of the mass tourism industry—which linked leisure to travel, promoted international expositions, and developed the concept of pleasure travel. Gotham shows how New Orleans was able to become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States, especially through the transformation of Mardi Gras into a national, even international, event. All the while Gotham is concerned with showing the difference between tourism from above and tourism from below—that is, how New Orleans’ distinctiveness is both maximized, some might say exploited, to serve the global economy of tourism as well as how local groups and individuals use tourism to preserve and anchor longstanding communal traditions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cancer
ISBN : UOM:39015071188604
Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0738568562
"In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last world's fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establishe New Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of political intrigue and design changes before the gates finally opened. Stretching 84 acres along the Mississippi River, the fair entertained more than seven million guests with a colorful collection of pavilions, rides, and restaurants during its six-month run. While most world's fairs lose money, the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair had the dubious distinction of going bankrupt and almost closing early. However, the $350-million investment did succeed in bringing new life to the area, which is now home to the city's convention center and a bustling arts district" -- back cover.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754073297107
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063912130
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32435051682672
Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000090635503
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Louisiana World Exposition
ISBN : LOC:00185433869
Author : Robert W. Rydell,John E. Findling,Kimberly Pelle
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560983842
Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
Author : Arthur P. Molella,Scott Gabriel Knowles
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822987086
The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the stock-in-trade of world’s fairs. From the 1940s to the 1980s, expositions in the United States and around the world, from Brussels to Osaka to Brisbane, mirrored Cold War culture in a variety of ways, and also played an active role in shaping it. This volume illustrates the cultural change and strain spurred by the Cold War, a disruptive period of scientific and technological progress that ignited growing concern over the impact of such progress on the environment and humanistic and spiritual values. Through the lens of world’s fairs, contributors across disciplines offer an integrated exploration of the US–USSR rivalry from a global perspective and in the context of broader social and cultural phenomena—faith and religion, gender and family relations, urbanization and urban planning, fashion, modernization, and national identity—all of which were fundamentally reshaped by tensions and anxieties of the Atomic Age.
Author : Derrick Fludd
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781450728782
Author : Mike Gregory
Publisher : Author House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467849852
World's Fairs and Expositions have been part of our American Culture for more than 150 years. The fairs started out in a large exhibit hall, and as the years passed and the number of exhibits grew as did the number of buildings needed for the displays. Eventually many states, nations, and individuals would start building their own buildings. How many of these buildings are still standing? That was a major focus of the research of this book. Some fairs left several buildings while others have nothing to remind us of the glory of the fair. The book also focuses on the statistics and interesting facts about the fairs and expos.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business
ISBN : MINN:31951D029610883
Includes articles on international business opportunities.
Author : JDP Econ
Publisher : JDP Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780974533803
When the International Olympic Committee members selected the western Canadian city of Vancouver and its mountain top sister Whistler as the sites of the 2010 Winter Olympics on July 2, 2003, it did so for many reasons. Geopolitical. A great bid plan. The cosmopolitan nature of the host city and the spectacular alpine views from the resort municipality of Whistler. But the main reason Vancouver was a spectacular choice was buried deep within the bid committee literature and will prove to be the penultimate reason why IOC bid evaluation committee chairman Gerhard Heiberg praised Vancouver's choice as a potential host of the best Olympics ever, ... Expo '86. The Vancouver Games: A Spectacular Choice recounts the bid victory and reasons why Vancouver will host a great Olympic Games. Based on the data from the World's Fair Decision Model project by JDP ECON. See why the outstanding experience of Vancouver with hosting Expo '86 will bode well for the Olympic movement in 2010.