Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride

On the fourth of July 1996, the Walt Disney Company dedicated its last creation, the city of Celebration, its first true attempt at planning a whole city built to house 20.000 people. Celebration was designed according to the standards of the neotraditional town-planning movement and thus reproduces...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a4a9516df12244e7922b8072dd098e672021-12-02T11:19:15ZDisney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride1278-336610.4000/cybergeo.1147https://doaj.org/article/a4a9516df12244e7922b8072dd098e671999-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/1147https://doaj.org/toc/1278-3366On the fourth of July 1996, the Walt Disney Company dedicated its last creation, the city of Celebration, its first true attempt at planning a whole city built to house 20.000 people. Celebration was designed according to the standards of the neotraditional town-planning movement and thus reproduces the Main Street section of the theme parks. Its attempt to function as a refuge-city is suggested through references to an idealized past. This article aims to show the influences used during the design stage and the promotion of the city, as well as the reactions it sparked in the American press : Celebration was in fact presented to the public as a prime alternative to decaying fifties suburbs of the Sun Belt, a utopia for the nineteen-nineties.Sophie DidierUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésarticleCelebrationWalt Disney Companyneotraditional town-planningEPCOTurban utopiatheme parkGeography (General)G1-922DEENFRITPTCybergeo (1999)
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topic Celebration
Walt Disney Company
neotraditional town-planning
EPCOT
urban utopia
theme park
Geography (General)
G1-922
spellingShingle Celebration
Walt Disney Company
neotraditional town-planning
EPCOT
urban utopia
theme park
Geography (General)
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Sophie Didier
Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride
description On the fourth of July 1996, the Walt Disney Company dedicated its last creation, the city of Celebration, its first true attempt at planning a whole city built to house 20.000 people. Celebration was designed according to the standards of the neotraditional town-planning movement and thus reproduces the Main Street section of the theme parks. Its attempt to function as a refuge-city is suggested through references to an idealized past. This article aims to show the influences used during the design stage and the promotion of the city, as well as the reactions it sparked in the American press : Celebration was in fact presented to the public as a prime alternative to decaying fifties suburbs of the Sun Belt, a utopia for the nineteen-nineties.
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author Sophie Didier
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title Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride
title_short Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride
title_full Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride
title_fullStr Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride
title_full_unstemmed Disney urbaniste : la ville de Celebration en Floride
title_sort disney urbaniste : la ville de celebration en floride
publisher Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités
publishDate 1999
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