The celebration chronicles
life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1999 - Ballantine Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL38338M
- ISBN-100345417518
- OCLC Control Number41090797
- OCLC Control Numbercelebrationchron00ross
- Library of Congress Control Number99026403
and 2 more
- Goodreads861805
- LibraryThing177336
Classifications
- DDC307.76/09759/25
- LCCHT169.57.U62 C457 1999
Alternate Titles
- Life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town
Description
"Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross set out to answer questions by spending 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 ultra-progressive school, hospital, and high-tech infrastructure, Celebration would be yet another 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."--BOOK JACKET. "In this account, based on his personal encounters and on several hundred hours of interviews with residents, employees, and county locals, Ross records what went right and what went wrong in this latest version of the American Dream."--BOOK JACKET.
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