With this ticket you could ride the moving sidewalk along a 2500-foot pier at the 1893 World's Fair. Despite the ride's frequent breakdowns, 997,785 people took a stroll on the sidewalk during the time the fair was open.
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THE PACK-DONKEY'S WAY: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PEDWAY'S ORIGINS
On the Trail of a Disorderly Future is a guided tour of the Chicago Pedway. This blog is a record of some of the research that went into the creation of the tour.
For more information, visit the main website at chicagopedwaytour.com or huimintsen.com.
The project is partially supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
ENCYCLOPEDIA INDEX
- A: Automation (3)
- C: Circular (6)
- E: Enclosure (4)
- F: The Future (3)
- M: Mechanical Walkways (1)
- M: Multilevel (2)
- N: News (3)
- O: Origins (3)
- O: Orphan girls (2)
- P: People Mover (2)
- P: Point-of-Interest (1)
- R: Revolving Door (2)
- T: Tickets (1)
- U: Underground People (2)
- U: Utopia (2)
- V: Vision Unbuilt (4)
- V:Visions Built (2)
- W: Wayward Girl (2)
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THE PACK-DONKEY'S WAY
“Man walks in a straight line because he has a goal and knows where he is going;he has made up his mind to reach some particular place and he goes straight to it. The pack-donkey meanders along, meditates a little in his scatter-brained and distracted fashion, he zigzags in order to avoid the larger stones, or to ease the climb, or to gain a little shade; he takes the line of least resistance ... The winding road is thePack-Donkey’s Way, the straight road is man’s way.”
- le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and its Planning
- le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and its Planning