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

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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.