Pan Am, White City, and Midway

After reading through Kasson and then looking through the videos and the guided map, the Pan-American Exposition seems to be a blend of both White City and Midway. Both White City and Pan-Am have very beautiful and old world architectural design. The images of White City screams classical Roman Empire style of architecture to me. Especially this image:

Meanwhile the Pan American's architectural style reminds me of Renaissance era buildings, that's the first comparison that pops into my head when looking at the pictures and videos.

And then there are the videos of the acts that went on at the Pan-Am, they seem very similar to what was happening at Midway, the carnival, almost circus like feel to them. (By the way the illustrations of the faces of the men who had gone to see the belly dancers in the Kasson article was hilarious). But Pan-Am also had this massive arena, where it looks like they staged battle reenactments, which was fascinating to look at in the video. All in all I would say the Pan-Am took the Midway and White City models and blended them together to make something more and something a little more different.