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When the Walt Disney Company un- veiled its plans to build the town of the future, a model for environmentally sound, community-supportive urban development, it generated enormous interest around the country and the world. After all, Disney is one of the world's best- known brand names, with a string of successes from theme parks to Broad. way—though none was known for being environmentally friendly or socially conscious. Still, the plan for Celebration, Florida, was powerful enough to draw some of the world's leading architects and urban planners. Public interest was so strong that a lottery was required to pick the first residents from thousands of homeseekers.
Among the early residents were New York Times reporter Doug Frantz and his wife, Cathy Collins. Along with their two school-age children, they moved into the community shortly after the very first wave of people had arrived. Openly acknowledging that they were there to report on the town, they would spend the next two years as both observers and participants. The result is Celebration, U.S.A.—a report from the front lines that will surprise Disneyphobes and Disneyphiles alike. This is an interim report. The town is evolving, and it will be years before we know if or how it succeeds. But what Celebration, U.S.A. reveals is how a new town begins to develop real community structures and just how much social engineer. ing can be done through bricks and mortar. Perhaps most important, it re- veal* how deeply unhappy millions of Americans are living in their isolated sub- urban, ear-dependent world.
Is Celebration a model for the future? Not yet. But it has clearly struck a nerve deep in the nation's soul. Something beyond the architecture and planning, beyond the Disney label, has drawn people to this new frontier. And in telling the story of Celebration, authors Frantz and Collins tell us as much about our dreams and desires as about the way Disney set to work inventing this brave new town. Like the best of social reporting, this book challenges us to consider what we want for ourselves, our kids, and our country as the world heads into a new century.
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Utopian Studies, social science, Stadsplanning, Stadtplanung, Social conditions, City planning, City and town life, Walt Disney Enterprises, Walt disney company, Florida, social conditions, City planning, united statesPeople
Doug Frantz, Cathy CollinsPlaces
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"A Marian Wood book."
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What is it like to start a new community-not a suburb or a subdivision, but a town, intended to be a self-supporting community that combines the best of the new technological innovations and the most cherished nostalgic elements of American towns? In 1997, six months after the first residents relocated to Celebration, Florida--Disney's "model" town--Doug Frantz and Cathy Collins and their two children moved in to participate in and report on this new venture. Their account, which The Richmond Style Weekly called a "fascinating and evenhanded" report from the trenches, follows the ups and downs of the two years the family lived this experiment firsthand; the new afterword details their surprisingly difficult transition back to a "normal life" in Westport, Connecticut. Their experience tells us as much about ourselves and our hopes and dreams as it does about the daily reality of building a community from the ground up.
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