Abstract
This article outlines how the visual and spatial structure of Montreal's Expo 67, its texture, encapsulated a “future gaze” and how this encapsulation project was related to the overarching transformations of Montreal. Expo 67 was a sight, an experience-scape, and a mediator of Montreal as a future world metropolis. The article discusses how different “means of encapsulation,” such as transit systems, multiscreen cinema, and surveillance systems, promoted new ways of seeing, which in different ways were to translate Montreal into a city of the future. It also introduces the concepts of texture and encapsulation as a general framework for understanding the ways in which urban planning, mediatization, and event production are interwoven in late modern societies.
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