International expositions are distinguished into three types which are recognized international exhibitions, international exhibitions and specialized exhibitions recorded. They are regulated by an organization called the International Exhibitions Bureau. It defines international exhibitions as unique places of meeting where education is through experimentation, cooperation through participation and development through innovation. They express a message of universal interest, educational and recreational experience and are as experimental laboratories showing the extraordinary and new. The International Exhibitions Bureau was established from the will of its member states to engage in the cultural, economic and political events of these unique for their size, strength and innovation of their attractiveness that are World Expos, but also international exhibitions. It was created under an agreement signed in Paris on 22 November 1928. Its regulatory activity begins in 1931 and has since registered, 40 exhibitions, has attracted 500 million visitors and has 140 member states. Its main objective is to make an exhibition, an event designed to take stock of human resources available to meet the needs of a civilization and highlighting in one or more branches of human activity the progress and future prospects. World exhibitions were created to showcase the achievements of industrial countries. They reflect the showcase of technological and industrial participants, reflecting the progress during the Industrial Revolution. The first Expo was held in London in 1851.À Initially, each country has a placeholder in a central pavilion. From 1867, national flags appeared. In principle, they were awarded only if there were things that at present the central pavilion could accommodate. They soon become widespread, the exhibiting nations building houses typical of the architecture of their country. The competition was rampant in the world exhibitions, competitions and allowed the most deserving to win medals that have a certain prestige. Many architectural works built on the occasion of World Expositions are subsequently became symbols of the cities that have sheltered: the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Atomium in Brussels, the Space Needle in Seattle, the Biosphere in Montreal. Finally, the holding of expositions have always been the opportunity to implement urban projects: Construction of the Paris Metro in 1900 and one in Montreal in 1967, extending the Lisbon Metro in 1998.
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