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GALLERY IV

The Classroom

A teaching space devoted to the museum at first; convertible later.

The Teaching Floor
The classroom inside the museum: work tables for a class of ten and a professor, plans spread flat, tablets up, and the whole collection one corridor away.
The Projector Corner
A rear-projected whiteboard in the unused corner - an exhibit flashes up, a student writes over it, the wall teaches back.
The Plan Table
A city plan spread full width - students gather around an item the way engineers once did, papers out, tablets focused.
The Holo Table Lesson
The reserved 8-by-6 table with its docent: a lesson runs above the glass in 3D, controlled from the tablets below.
The Reading Wall
The hall's informational panels in sequence - the argument of the gallery told in maps, figures, and captions. Read it like a chapter.
Viewpoints
Any viewpoint set can be thrown to the projector corners from the tablet - the whole estate on demand.
Play the City
The role-play desk: take the chair of the designer, the city planner, the mayor, or the business manager. Good-government examples on one side; the other city - slums, Skid Row, the haven of booze - told straight on the other. Nearly every major city has a transitional story here.
🎧 A moment to consider
What will you carry out of this room?
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Galleries▲
∞The City Model IThe World Timeline IIAmerican Cities IIIThe Modern World City IVThe Classroom ◄ YOU ARE HERE VThe Walking City VIThe Port City VIICoal and the Clock VIIIWhy Buildings Rise IXGoing Up XThe Tenement and the Terrace XIThe Company Town XIIThe Machine and the Ward XIIIThe Cooled Room XIVThe Sunbelt Bargain XVThe Return Downtown XVIThe Tower Again XVIIThe New Mills XVIIIThe Moving City XIXThe Precinct and the Patrol XXThe Ward and the Ambulance XXIThe Schoolhouse XXIIThe Commons and the Canopy XXIIIThe Crossroads XXIVThe Airfield XXVThe Alley and the Margin XXVIRails and the River XXVIIMetropolis and Hinterland XXVIIIThe Horse and the Motor XXIXThe Aqueduct and the Larder XXXThe Lights and the Arena XXXIThe Crowded Floor XXXIIThe Edge and the Gradient XXXIIIThe City Profiles The City in Focus — The Decade Panels The Earliest Cities Ancient Babylon Damascus, Cut in Half The Seven Hills of Rome Alexandria and the Ports The Federal Triangle 3-D Texas in the City The River Room Chicagoland The Megalopolis The Pacific Northwest France, with Large Paris Great Britain Map Room The Asia Gallery The Great Desert Africa, and the Projection Room
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