Wrath Of Gnon

Even if the medieval town and fair itself was ultimately temporary, it left a few interesting and beautiful architectural remains, like the bridge in this photo (the older wooden bridge next to it was later dismantled).pic.twitter.com/OD24B3ZQnT

It might seem like a big outlay, but creating replica towns and cities could be an interesting way to experiment with new urbanism, and allow people to get a feel for how an area would work, in human scaled cities built for foot traffic only.pic.twitter.com/vzgAI59H4T

The layout of the area itself (of which absolutely nothing remains today) can be seen on the left city-like part of this map of the exhibition area, which incidentally also featured consumer level electric boats and electric cars.pic.twitter.com/UVxDT5gPNB

All of the replica buildings had real world models, but many had to be built in a 1:2 scale for resons of economy, it still managed to become a convincing and attractive model or medieval urbanism.pic.twitter.com/DFACnwudXP

There were souvenir shops, medieval themed pubs and restaurants, a rest area styled as a monastic herb garden (complete with actors dressed as monks and nuns), a medieval trading vessel anchored in the artificial harbor, and staged brawls with "drunken soldiers".pic.twitter.com/VQ1F3fPqRx

The replica medieval town was built out of simple planking and plaster, then painted to look as real as possible. It recreated the Old Town (just a few hundred meters away) as it would have looked in the 16th century. It was a huge success with the fair going public.pic.twitter.com/nnUfnUc5Pq

The General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm in 1897 was one of several World's Fairs of the era that built full live models of medieval towns. Staged on an island just next to central Stockholm, the medieval replica town was built on an artificial island (to the left).pic.twitter.com/PZ10eNmmmK

Railways are the only way to connect towns and cities without destroying the land between them.pic.twitter.com/y3pKWxg17X

“‘My old man used to say,’ begins many a man's reminiscence, long after the father has returned to the dust. We are raising the first children in the history of the world who will, by the millions, not know what that sentence means.” — Anthony Esolenpic.twitter.com/yKILHcwcDM

“The past is dangerous, not least because it cannot go away.” — Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolenpic.twitter.com/3T6NCoGWnL

On the dismantling of a nation. “Method 5: Cast Aspersions upon the Heroic and Patriotic.” — Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolenpic.twitter.com/84dVeDlord