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The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington.〔''Official Guide Book'', cover and ''passim''.〕〔(Guide to the Seattle Center Grounds Photograph Collection: April, 1963 ), University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. Accessed online October 18, 2007.〕 Nearly 10 million people attended the fair.〔Joel Connelly, (Century 21 introduced Seattle to its future ), ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', April 16, 2002. Accessed online October 18, 2007.〕 Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit.〔 As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life (''see History of Seattle since 1940'').〔Regina Hackett, (City's arts history began a new chapter in '62 ), ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'', April 29, 2002. Accessed online October 18, 2007.〕 The fair saw the construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail, as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now KeyArena) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the Cornish Playhouse), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled. The site, slightly expanded since the fair, is now called Seattle Center; the United States Science Pavilion is now the Pacific Science Center. Another notable Seattle Center building, the Experience Music Project, was built nearly 40 years later and deliberately designed to fit in with the fairground atmosphere. ==Cold War and Space Race context== The fair was originally conceived in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious. With the Space Race underway and Boeing having "put Seattle on the map"〔(Lesson Twenty-five: The Impact of the Cold War on Washington: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair ), HSTAA 432: History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Accessed online October 18, 2007.〕 as "an aerospace city", a major theme of the fair was to show that "the United States was not really 'behind' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space". As a result, the themes of space, science, and the future completely trumped the earlier conception of a "Festival of the () West".〔 In June 1960, the International Bureau of Expositions certified Century 21 as a world's fair.〔 Project manager Ewen Dingwall went to Moscow to request Soviet participation, but was turned down. The Baltic states (then occupied by the Soviet Union) were not invited, nor was the mainland People's Republic of China, Vietnam, nor North Korea.〔Sharon Boswell and Lorraine McConaghy, (A model for the future ), ''The Seattle Times'', September 22, 1996. Accessed online October 20, 2007.〕 As it happened, the Cold War had an additional effect on the fair. President John F. Kennedy was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21, 1962. He bowed out, pleading a "heavy cold"; it later became public that he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.〔Greg Lange, (President Kennedy's Cold War cold supersedes Seattle World's Fair closing ceremonies on October 21, 1962 ), HistoryLink.org Essay 967, March 15, 1999. Accessed online October 18, 2007. 〕 The fair's vision of the future displayed a technologically based optimism that did not anticipate any dramatic social change, one rooted in the 1950s rather than in the cultural tides that would emerge in the 1960s. Affluence, automation, consumerism, and American power would grow; social equity would simply take care of itself on a rising tide of abundance; the human race would master nature through technology rather than view it in terms of ecology.〔 In contrast, 12 years later—even in far more conservative Spokane, Washington—Expo '74 took environmentalism as its central theme.〔(Lesson Twenty-six: Spokane's Expo '74: A World's Fair for the Environment ), HSTAA 432: History of Washington State and the Pacific Northwest], Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. Accessed online April 9, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Century 21 Exposition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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