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Celebration, U.S.A. : living in Disney's brave new town

Title
Celebration, U.S.A. : living in Disney's brave new town / Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins.
Author
Frantz, Douglas.
Publication
New York : Henry Holt & Co., 1999.

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Collins, Catherine.
Description
342 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "When the Walt Disney Company unveiled 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."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "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."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "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 engineering can be done through bricks and mortar. Perhaps most important, it reveals how deeply unhappy millions of Americans are living in their isolated suburban, car-dependent world."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Walt Disney Enterprises
  • City and town life > Florida
  • City planning > Celebration
  • Celebration (Fla.) > Social conditions
  • Celebration (Fla.)
Note
  • "A Marian Wood book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The Cult of the Mouse -- 2. Back to the Future -- 3. Citizen Disney -- 4. Town & Country Marriages -- 5. Great Expectations -- 6. School Daze -- 7. The Zeus Box -- 8. Scorpions and Other Neighbors -- 9. Looking for Mayberry -- 10. Visitation Rites -- 11. Swamp Song -- 12. Bowling Together -- 13. An Epiphany -- 14. Civil Wars -- 15. Truman Didn't Sleep Here.
ISBN
0805055606 (alk. paper)
LCCN
99010392
OCLC
  • 40668066
  • ocm40668066
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries