The celebration chronicles : life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town / Andrew Ross.

Main entry:

Ross, Andrew, 1956-

Title & Author:

The celebration chronicles : life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town / Andrew Ross.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Homeward bound -- The price of tradition -- The new geewhizzery -- Main Street is better than alright -- Our much-rumored life -- Riders on the storm -- The siege of the school -- Oil and water -- It takes a village -- Kinder, gentler government? -- God's houses, a picture of health, and the color of our minds -- Not an island -- Learning from Celebration.

Summary:

"Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross set out to answer questions by spending a year living in the much scrutinized, and often demonized, Celebration - the picture-perfect town that Disney is building for 20,000 people in the swamp and scrub of central Florida. Lavishly planned with a downtown center and newly minted antique homes, and front-loaded with an ultra-progressive school, hospital, and high-tech infrastructure, Celebration would be yet another fresh start in a world gone wrong. Yet behind the picket fences, gleaming facades, and "Kodak moment" streetscapes, Ross discovered a real place with real problems, and not a theme park village cooked up by the imagineers." "In this account, based on his personal encounters and on several hundred hours of interviews with residents, employees, and county locals, Ross records what went right and what went wrong in this latest version of the American Dream."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0345417518 (hard ; alk. paper)
9780345417510 (hard ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Walt Disney Enterprises.
New towns Florida Case studies.
City and town life Florida Celebration.
City planning Florida Celebration.
Villes nouvelles Floride Études de cas.
Vie urbaine Floride Celebration.
Design urbain Floride Celebration.
City and town life
City planning
New towns
Stedenbouw.
Walt Disney Company.
Celebration (Fla.)
Florida
Florida Celebration

Form/genre:

Case Reports
Case studies
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207237
Call No.: HT169.57.U62 C45 1999
Status: Available

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