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Flushing, New York: Queens Museum, 1980. Paperback. Black wraps with photo-illustration and white lettering; xi, 123 pp.; richly illustrated. Good (Wraps are moderately shelf and edge worn, smudged and scuffed, but fully intact; interior is clean but toned at the edges; binding is solid.). Contents: Introduction -- The world of tomorrow: science, culture, and community at the New York World's Fair -- The people's fair: cultural contradictions of a consumer society -- The design of reason: architecture and planning at the 1939/40 New York World's Fair -- The fair perceived: color and light as elements in design and planning -- The usable future: the role of fantasy in the promotion of a consumer society for art.