Celebration, United States, North America
Year 1996 latitude: 28° 19' longitude: -81° 31' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Disney Corporation Inhabitants 5,000 (2003) Target population 20,000 Town website Town related links http://www.americansc.org.uk/Online/Celebration.htm http://celebration.nm1.net/ http://www.celebrationfl.com/ Literature - Tracy Metz, 'Disney doet modeldorp Celebration van de hand', NRC 23-1-2004 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Five years ago, in November 1996, 350 people became the first residents of the town, built by the Disney Corporation on mosquito-ridden swampland in Osceola County, Florida, next to its World Resort. This model town is now a thriving community of 5000 residents, with a projected population of 20,000. The early brochures for Celebration immodestly described it as a massive project in social engineering, an attempt to recreate the kinder, gentler America of the past: "There was once a place where neighbors greeted neighbors in the quiet of summer twilight / There is a place that takes you back to that time of innocence / A place of caramel apples and cotton candy, secret forts, and hopscotch on the streets." source: web
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