Shanghai Expo 2010 | 1939 NYC World's Fair

A comparison between the upcoming 2010 World Expo in Shanghai and the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. This video is featured as part of the Skyscraper Museum's China Prophecy exhibition running from June 24, 2009 to Winter 2010.

The theme of the Shanghai 2010 Expo, Better City, Better Life, focuses on improving the urban future through constructing modern infrastructure and creating parks and green space throughout the city. The virtual visit on this screen has been used for several years to promote Expo 2010. It was created by the Fairs planners with Crystal CG, the Chinese computer animation company that dominates the industry. Crystal CG also works with many architects to create impressive fly-overs of the city that insert their designers work into the existing Crystal model.

The virtual tour of the Expo presents a vision of the future with strong parallels to the 1939 New Yorks Worlds Fair. The designers of Democracity and the Futurama imagined American cities in a car-based culture of efficient highways and widely-spaced skyscrapers surrounded by abundant open space.

Skyscraper Museum: http://www.skyscraper.org/chinaprophecy

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[MaryStewart]

@duamutefsasaliyang sadly, it's chinese and not americans...

[duamutefsasaliyang]

In 1939 it was a dream; in 2010 it is a reality.

[TherapudicCaffeine]

Haha, Futurama. :P

[luisbeck007]

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[trainluvr]

In answer to your question "Is this the future?" I say it is a possible one, but certainly not the most desirable, nor the most likely.