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Bibliography - World's Fairs And Their Impact Upon Urban Planning, John Mullin

John R. Mullin

This bibliography was developed in support of a masters thesis entitled "World's Fairs and Their Impact Upon Urban Planning". Traditionally, the major purposes of world's fairs have been to provide entertainment, serve as centers of trade and serve as educational experiences. A fourth purpose has evolved in the United States in the past seventy-five years, paralleling the growth of city planning. This purpose is to achieve long-range permanent benefits for the host city. The nature, characteristics, extent and relationship between planning in the host city and world's fairs were the major concerns in the study. World's fairs require millions of …