New Horizons is what the wonder year of 1960 is all about. A strong and bold vision of the utopian future of 1960 is laid out from this 1939 film from the General Motors World’s Fair in New York called Futurama. It is a time of “modern and efficient city planning and breath taking architecture” and “new opportunities for employment and better ways of living.” Urban life is dramatically changing during this time period of before World War II, with new technology and this film shows the changes created by Norman Bel Geddes through a model display of the visions they have for the future through the terrain of America.
That is to say, this film show cased a lot about the improvements of road networks and safety. It is important to have “the freedom of movement from place to place” especially with the technology of vehicles constantly improving. Because of this, they created up to seven lane, one direction highways …show more content…
Many residents moved from the rural areas, to the city, to the suburbs. Especially because the technology made agriculture easier to grow so in effect, it cut down work hours for these hard working individuals. This is a big reason why the traffic connectivity and safety is so important, to accommodate to the citizens living on the outskirts. From here on out, this concept of the suburbs was an immense social change for the way people lived. This aspect is still seen and popular to this day.
Altogether, these ideas and aspects were all in an exhibit that was created to show and inspire the public of the future of our ever so changing, modern cities. These ideas ranged from connectivity of people and ideas to technology improvements that all improved the way of life in many, unique ways. The modern pioneering changed the way urban life looks and feels to the citizens living in it. There was and will continue to be “constant striving towards new and rising horizons” to make this an era of new
That is to say, this film show cased a lot about the improvements of road networks and safety. It is important to have “the freedom of movement from place to place” especially with the technology of vehicles constantly improving. Because of this, they created up to seven lane, one direction highways …show more content…
Many residents moved from the rural areas, to the city, to the suburbs. Especially because the technology made agriculture easier to grow so in effect, it cut down work hours for these hard working individuals. This is a big reason why the traffic connectivity and safety is so important, to accommodate to the citizens living on the outskirts. From here on out, this concept of the suburbs was an immense social change for the way people lived. This aspect is still seen and popular to this day.
Altogether, these ideas and aspects were all in an exhibit that was created to show and inspire the public of the future of our ever so changing, modern cities. These ideas ranged from connectivity of people and ideas to technology improvements that all improved the way of life in many, unique ways. The modern pioneering changed the way urban life looks and feels to the citizens living in it. There was and will continue to be “constant striving towards new and rising horizons” to make this an era of new