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Giberti, Bruno. "The Classified Landscape: Consumption, Commodity Order, and the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia," Department of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, May 1994.
This dissertation examines the ordering of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. To organize the goods on display, the managers of the Centennial devised a theoretical system of classification, which they attempted to impose on the built environment of the exhibition. Although they failed to realize their ideal of a transparently organized, classified landscape, the fairgrounds as built forecast the basic features of the consumption-centered environment as we know it today—the dominance of the market over other institutions, the warehouse and its cognates over other building types, and the gazing on goods over other forms of behavior.
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