Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow

stated from Palm Beach Post, in 1964 Walt Disney quietly bought 27,000 acres of the Central Florida swampland for “The Florida Project,” known today as Disneyworld. (Frias, 2011) 2) The heart of Disneyworld was designed to be named “Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow.” According to “History of Disney World” from lovetoknow.com, the park built its own energy plants, food centers, laundry, and their own airstrip to become the “self-sufficient and self-governed world” envisioned by Walt Disney. (Santiago

In the year 1955, Disneyland Park was opened. Walt Disney’s longtime dream of an organized and clean park came to pass. The theme park was located in a place called Anaheim in California. It was worth an amount of $17 million. The park was initially an orange grove before it was transformed into a theme park. An actor and a future US president Ronald Reagan presided over the activities while launching the new park. Many people were invited on that opening ceremony to witness the official opening

Walt Disney and Jet-Age City Planning Image borrowed from Waltopia. When is a planned community too planned? Some of the exhibits displayed at the 1939 World's Fair such as Democracity and Futurama influenced many American community planners. The Levittown and Greenbelt projects followed the same guidelines of community that the 1939 World's Fair introduced. These are two of the more well known Garden City projects that took many families away from big cities and brought them to the peace

idea and laboured for days on end in a secretive studio called the Florida Room to produce an array of paintings and sketches showing the community. The futurist approach is a small step in the direction we have been pursuing as architects for the most part the twenty-first century: ecological design. Another key point that has been discussed, is the communities optimistic attempt to convey an efficient economic situation within such planned contemporary development. A bold decision of that time,

ups and downs over the years, Disneyland has expanded its rides over time and branched out globally with parks in Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong. Within a few years of the opening, Disney began plans for a new theme park and Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow in Florida. It was still under construction when, in 1966, Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died on December 15, 1966, at the age of 65. Disney was cremated, and his ashes interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles

enough for Walt. He soon began dreaming up Disney World, a bigger version of Disneyland that would be located in Orlando Florida. Walt Disney stated that the heart of everything they would be doing in Disney World – would be their Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Kurtti 18). They called this EPCOT (18). Walt never got so see his Florida dream come alive because he died on December 15, 1966. It was now up to the Imagineers to keep his dream alive. The production of Disney World kept on under

California (Walt Disney Biography). Not long after the grand opening on Disneyland, Disney began planning a new theme park in Florida. Disney was diagnosed with lung cancer while working on the plans for the new theme park and Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Biography.com Editors). Disney died on December 15, 1966 (Biography). With the new theme park still in construction, Roy Disney carried out his brother’s dream and opened the park 1971, where he named it Walt Disney World. after

Walt Disney's EPCOT: A Fascist Community Walt Disney had a vision to create a utopian society for citizens called EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), but in reality, did he create a fascist community dictated by himself? EPCOT was an original project designed by Walt Disney and the project was conceived between 1962 and 1966. Disney, described EPCOT would be the perfect utopian city environment enriched with education, ever-expanding technology, dependable public transportation

the recreation of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ in black-and-white. During Walt’s “careless” years he was able to discover much about himself. He began to develop love and admiration towards nature, wildlife, family and community. Additionally, he discovered love for acting and performing. There wasn’t much he could do about it, but he took advantage of his opportunity. During school he would entertain his friends by imitating his all time hero, Charlie Chaplin (Walt Disney

Dennis Prager once said, “Although images of perfection in people’s personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies, utopian images, can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the 20th century.” (Prager Dennis, Search Quote) The meaning of this upscale quote goes to show how our generation evolves into society. In general, everyone wishes to live in a perfect world, with perfect, happy people, where