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The celebration chronicles

The celebration chronicles

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property value in Disney's New Town

Andrew Ross

Ballentine, New York; 1st edition, 1999

edition: english
hardcover
352 p
14 x 21 x 2 cm
5000 g
illustrated
B&W
ISBN 978-0-307-78846-7

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The celebration chronicles

about the book

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.

about the author

Andrew Ross
Professor of American Studies at New York University. Author and editor of several books.

how to quote

ROSS, Andrew. The celebration chronicles. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property value in Disney's New Town. 1st edition, New York, Ballentine, 1999.

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