Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls

Bibliographic Data

ID8375770
AuthorsPatrick Mcgreevy (University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume77
Issue1
Pages48-62
Publication date1987-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8306.1987.tb00144.x
OpenAlexW2160146693
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

Between 1890 and 1910, Niagara Falls became the focus of a great deal of thinking about the future. Many engineers and entrepreneurs predicted that Niagara's waterpower would make it the greatest manufacturing center in the world. Utopian plans were drafted for a future metropolis that would exemplify moral as well as material progress. During the same period several novelists pictured Niagara as the focal point of a disastrous future of wars and dangerous inventions. This paper examines the roots of these visions of the future in earlier perceptions of the falls and assesses their relation to the actual industrial development of Niagara. Key Words: future worldsgeosophytechnologyprogressurban imageryliteratureimaginationindustrynature

Environmental ethics · Relation (database) · Sociology · Vision · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical Geography and Cartography · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Philosophy

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