Dubai is front-runner to win World Expo 2020 bid | GulfNews.com

Dubai is front-runner to win World Expo 2020 bid | GulfNews.com:

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• The banner of Expo 2020 Dubai UAE on DIFC Building.

Few visitors to Disneyland have a world exposition on their minds as they embark on the 15-minute ‘It’s a Small World’ boat ride. But it was for the 1964 New York World’s Fair, as the expo was known, that Walt Disney designed the ride.
The Eiffel Tower and the Atomium in Brussels are other legacies of the world expos that have showcased technology, architecture and culture every five years since London’s inaugural Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851.
Today, though, hosting an expo means much more than buildings. Bidders count on an economic boost and a higher international profile as benefits from staging the six-month event. “An expo marks a certain ‘coming of age’ for a city,” Urso Chappell, an expo historian, said. “It can aid a city’s physical redevelopment as well as the nation’s image abroad.”"

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