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PLAN GALLERY I
GALLERY I

The World Timeline

Origin story of cities — the chronological spine from first crossroads settlements to the modern metropolis (cities.world_cities, 304 rows).

The Sixty-Foot Timeline
One unbroken wall from Ur to Dubai: five thousand years of cities drawn as a single rising line of walls, wheels, smokestacks, and glass.
Ur, 2000 BCE
Mudbrick courts around the ziggurat - the first city problem: grain in, walls up, who counts, who rules.
Imperial Rome
A million people fed by ships and aqueducts; the diorama cuts the insula open from street bakery to top-floor rent.
Manchester, 1850
The shock city of the steam age - mills, smoke, and the fastest-growing settlement the world had seen.
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
Historical set viewpoints ride the wall - simulated views of the cities on the line, always available.
🎧 A moment to consider
What will you carry out of this room?
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