Carlotta Falzone Robinson, “Designing a Unified City: The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and Its Aesthetic Ideals,” The Journal of San Diego History 59, no. 1/2 (Spring 2013): 65-86.
Please answer one of two questions about Robinson: (100-150 words)
What were some of the political goals of the design of the PPIE? Consider how aspects of architectural and landscape design related to: Orientalism, cosmopolitanism, eugenics and Social Darwinist race science, global trade and commerce, and local issues of social class relations.
What does Robinson mean when she writes, “Uniquely American, the Joy Zone had packaged exoticism and foreignness as a commodity”? (84) How, in her view, did this help make it the most successful and also influential part of the PPIE’s design program?
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