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fragmentation and public alienation (383). Those aspects are easily observable in the suburban areas. Neighbours barely talk to each other and lend each other a helping hand does not happen often. Noticing the suburb’s negative influence on the sense of community, the Disney Company decided to create a town called Celebration, in hope that a better way of designing urban life will bring citizens closer. This small town located about five miles south of Disney World in Orlando in the state of Florida represents an unfulfilled dream that Walt Disney envisioned shortly before his death. Three decades later, the Disney Company announced the creation of Celebration, which was inspired by Disney’s original vision of EPCOT (The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), which evolved into Epcot Center, an amusement park at Disney. Several changes were made to Disney’s original plan since the Disney Corporation realized that Walt Disney’s original plan would place the company under enormous development costs and uncertain financial return (Kargon and Mollela 134). Celebration projected a population of 20,000 in about 8,000 housing units spread in about 5000 acres (135). The amount of space it uses is almost the same as Garden City, an utopian town planned by Ebenezer Howard. “Disney conceived the idea of a city that would be living experiment showing the way for others” (132-133). The problems that are created by modern suburbs are caused by decades of unwise planning (Bartling…

workers were employed for the two year long construction process. During this time, guests were allowed to visit the preview center to learn from models, movies and drawings, what this magical world was going to entail. The total cost of the project at the time of opening day was $400 million (Walt Disney World History). After seeing the success of the Magic Kingdom park, expansion began, creating additional parks to encompass the Walt Disney World experience. Contrary to popular belief, Walt’s…

Journal Article Analysis - Journal Article Paper I chose to analyze the article written by Mathew J. Bartkowiak titled “Behind the Behind the Scenes of Disney World: Meeting the need for Insider Knowledge”. This article describes how for a price, Disney World offers many different types of behind the scenes tours. The tours cost $30.00 plus general admission for the Marceline to the Magic Kingdom tour, $74.00 plus general admission for the Disney’s Keys to the Kingdom tour and $224.00 for the…

Do you ever wonder what it is like in Walt Disney World? There are multiple themed roller coasters, restaurants, and some shows for Indiana Jones and Star Wars. There are also multiple places in Walt Disney World like the Magic Kingdom or Animal KIngdom. When you are younger and you are here your dreams come to life, like me when I was 6 years of age. In the summer of 2009, we just flew to Florida to go to Walt Disney World and stepped off the plane to get our luggage that we brought on the…

The Everglades have been one of the most beautiful National parks ever to be seen. The Everglades is one of the largest wetlands in the world. The Everglades protects more than 1.5 million acres of land. The Everglades can only be found in Florida. It is a treasure to the U.S because it is the largest tropical wilderness sites out there. The Everglades were founded in 1947 to preserve biological diversity and resources. The Everglades have a 4.6 review on the web. My experience with this…

Almost everybody has been to an amusement park in their life these days. It might be a small one or a big one. Amusement parks are in all different kinds of themes, for example, fairy tales or animations. Every amusement park is set up different with structure or has different plans for the future. The organisation that will be talked about in this report is Euro Disney S.C.A. The aim of this assignment is to make a link between the theory, which was learned in this module, and Disneyland…

the group at the airport, and we rented a three vans to carry us all. Then, we went to the hotel, got unpacked, and went to Disneyworld. Disney was a lot of fun, because it had been forever since I’d last visited. I thought it was cool to see how the different rides and attractions had changed since I’d last been there, and I loved revisiting old favorites. I rode Space Mountain lots of times, had a lot of laughs in the Monsters Inc. attraction, and went to ride It’s a Small World and Thunder…

The faces of children light up with excitement and disbelief. Seeing all the characters they watch on television and always dreamed to be, seemed to be mind-boggling. Street parties with all the Disney characters imaginable, loud music and dancing children and their parent in front of the “Magical Castle” is every kids dream. Thrilling rides for all ages, photos, meet and talk with your favorite characters, every food and candy you can dream of all in one day. Walt Disney world is the ultimate…

Wish I Could Be Part of That Disney World Since my toddler years, I have been an avid Disney fan, nay, an addict. I have attended the parks annually since my 3rd birthday. For many years, my family bought annual passes and we went as often as every other weekend. Early on I thought my dream job would be to play a Disney princess, as I grew into my preteen years I found that to be overrated. I became more opinionated of the changes occurring within the parks and less entranced by the magic they…

5 Reasons to Enjoy a Fantastically Fun Day at Disneyland Hong Kong Part of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland sits on Lantau Island; the same island as the airport. It offers a fun day out for all, with a combination of fast and thrilling rides and tamer rides, special attractions for kids, entertaining shows, good shopping and dining options, and plenty of opportunities to get up close and personal with all your favourite Disney characters! Pose for the perfect picture with…