city of light [definition] Utpic proposal for a city deigned considering electricity and light, presented in the Con Ed bulding at the New York World's Fair 1939.The major exhibit, "The City of Light" (Walter Dorwin Teague, Designer; F. J. Roorda, Associate), consists of what the exhibitor describes as the world's largest diorama, about a city block in length and higher than a three-story building. It is an animated model of the New York metropolitan area dramatizing the part played in the city's life by electricity, gas and steam supplied by Consolidated Edison. Music and sound effects, synchronized with a spoken narrative, present a 24-bour picture of the great metropolis. Miniature trains speed in subways, elevators rise and descend in skyscrapers, motor traffic flows across suspension bridges. Dawn and dusk-even a thunderstorm rumbling above the man-made canyons-are realistically portrayed.
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