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Cover of The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town

The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town

✍ Scribed by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.


Book ID
108577067
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
4 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307788467

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✦ Synopsis


Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross spent 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 ultraprogressive school, hospital, and high-tech infrastructure, Celebration was to offer a 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. Compelling and wide-ranging in its analysis, The Celebration Chronicles provides a startlingly fresh perspective on the link between contemporary urban planning and corporate bottom lines.

From the Trade Paperback edition.


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