Futurama (New York World's Fair)

Detail of the Futurama diorama[1]
Full size Futurama street intersection, c. 1939[2]
Illustration of the Highways and Horizons building by Edwin D. Mott, c. 1939[3]
Shell Oil City of Tomorrow model, c. 1936/37[4]
Cover of Magic Motorways by Norman Bel Geddes, Random House, New York, 1940

Futurama was an exhibit and ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes, which presented a possible model of the world 20 years into the future (1959–1960). The installation was sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and was characterized by automated highways and vast suburbs.[5]

  1. ^ "Magic motorways". [New York] Random house.
  2. ^ "Magic motorways". [New York] Random house.
  3. ^ "General Motors Highways & horizons : New York World's Fair". 1939.
  4. ^ "Magic motorways". [New York] Random house.
  5. ^ Herman, Arthur. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, pp. 58–65, Random House, New York. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6964-4.