New towns created by private enterprise in the early years of the twentieth century bear witness to the confluence of economic, social, and political forces at work in shaping urban forms. Built quickly and expensively, these towns thoroughly planned to sustain industrial profits, relying on social control to ensure the hegemony of the ruling class. This exhibition traces(...)
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6 March 1996 to 26 May 1996
Power and Planning: Industrial Towns in Québec, 1890-1950
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New towns created by private enterprise in the early years of the twentieth century bear witness to the confluence of economic, social, and political forces at work in shaping urban forms. Built quickly and expensively, these towns thoroughly planned to sustain industrial profits, relying on social control to ensure the hegemony of the ruling class. This exhibition traces(...)
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Let us assure you
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Power and Planning
Nature reorganized
Arvida, cités-jardins, Ernest Isbell Barott, Garden City, industrial, industriel, Ludger Lemieux, Québec, Ross and Macdonald, Shawinigan, Témiscaming, Thomas Adams
23 July 2009
Nature reorganized
Ulrich Keller, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines the influence of visual culture on politics in the United States.
28 March 2001
Ulrich Keller: Power Pictures: The Visual Rhetoric of the US Presidency
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Ulrich Keller, 2001 CCA Mellon Senior Fellow, examines the influence of visual culture on politics in the United States.
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Laboratories of the Future
Robert Kett, Robert J. Kett, Prospects Beyond Futures, Red Power Movement, counterculture, Alcatraz, 1970, CCA Singles
9 November 2020
Laboratories of the Future
Robert J. Kett introduces countercultural visions for Alcatraz during the occupation of the island by Indigenous activists
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June 2021 to August 2021
research
June 2022 to August 2022
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June 2022 to
August 2022
June 2020 to August 2020
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What the future looked like
PH2000:0167
architecture, engineering
1907
architecture, engineering