Bibliograph

The celebration chronicles, life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town, Andrew Ross

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The celebration chronicles, life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town, Andrew Ross

Language

eng

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illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The celebration chronicles

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

647273166

Responsibility statement

Andrew Ross

Review

"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." "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."--Jacket

Sub title

life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of property values in Disney's New Town

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