Episode 69 - The World's Fair and the City Beautiful

The Sculptor's Funeral - A podcast by Jason Arkles

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Is it Paris? Versailles? Venice? ...Chicago, actually! The stunning cityscape you see in  the image was known as the White City, a dreamlike place which existed for a few short years before disappearing - but its legacy lives on in cities and towns all over the United States, part of a phenomenon known as the City Beautiful Movement.