We owe her the Eiffel tower in Paris and the Atomium in Brussels: The world exhibition is often a permanent exclamation mark in the city. The Expo is a stage of Nations, and an economic factor.
One of the most expensive cities in the world: Osaka, as Tokyo – on Japan’s largest island, Honshu
In London it all started: in 1851, the subjects of Queen Victoria marvelled at the crystal Palace in Hyde Park, the stunning exhibition buildings, the British capital, albeit elsewhere – until 1936. Then, the glass construction in the participating countries showed their best side was, by a fire.
The metropolis is regarded as the centre of culinary culture, where culinary experiences can be found in the City …
However, the idea of a Great Exhibition, of a “great industrial exhibition of all Nations,” has survived in modified Form until today – as well as some of the other Monument, which was set for a world exhibition. By far the most famous of which survived, in contrast to the crystal Palace until today, although the metal mast should be reduced to four feet originally again: the Eiffel tower, which graced the Paris Exhibition of 1889.
“Tower of the sun”
The exhibition of 1970 could not be etched with a “tower of the sun”, visually at least, quite as prominently in the memory, but the Japanese Two and a half-million-metropolis gets a new Chance to burn unforgettable images into the collective memory: 2025 is the third largest city in Japan, the World Expo, as it is called, a second Time to align.
… but also cultural highlights such as the Daisen with the word Yamato, the last resting place of Emperor Nintoku
In terms of figures, the centre of trade in the country of the rising was sun, in any case, once the Top Ten of the world exhibition charts climb: five decades Ago, far more people attended the Show than in the Federal Republic of Germany lived: 64.2 million. Only in Shanghai, in 2010, were counted, with 73 million, significantly more visitors.
The world as a wonderful place
92 voices of Osaka, was awarded for his application. The Russian Yekaterinburg had 61 votes out. The Azerbaijani capital of Baku was already gone from the race. Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had advertised in a video message to the delegates, who had gathered for the vote in Paris, for its metropolis: As a leitmotif stand, “to make our world a wonderful place to be”.
The world exhibition of 1889 gave a gift to the world with the Eiffel tower, the 324 meters of height …
The last “big” Expo held in 2015 in Milan, Italy – “large”, because the International exhibition Bureau (BIE), the smaller the “International Expo”. The main variation is held every five years and lasts six months. 2020, the world will be in the Arab Emirate of Dubai.
The participating countries build traditionally their own pavilions. This is an important impetus in the history of the German pavilion in 1929, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had designed the style seemed to be forming for generations of architects.
Art and Commerce
For the host cities and regions, the exhibition is not only an artistic experience, but also an important economic factor. It is, however, calculated differently: While critics on and Have a look at the closing balance sheet, refer to politicians and lobbyists on a long-term positive effects.
… to the heaven-storming buildings in Dubai is hardly enough – and all of celebrities dominates
Reinhard folk, Executive Director of the first Expo on German soil, announced before the Show in the year 2000, the big event in Hannover is going to bring a value added of 15 billion D-Mark. He promised tens of thousands of jobs and four billion marks in tax revenue. At the end of a deficit of 1.1 billion Mark in the balance sheet. The consulting firm Roland Berger calculated but at least it’s a Tax increase of almost three billion Mark.
jj/RC (dpa, afp)