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The Celebration Chronicles

by Andrew Ross, Ph.D.
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Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross spent 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 ultraprogressive school, hospital, and high-tech infrastructure, Celebration was to offer a 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. Compelling and wide-ranging in its analysis, The Celebration Chronicles provides a startlingly fresh perspective on the link between contemporary urban planning and corporate bottom lines.
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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  • Release date: August 17, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307788467
  • Release date: August 17, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307788467
  • File size: 5441 KB
  • Release date: August 17, 2011
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Law Sociology Nonfiction

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Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross spent 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 ultraprogressive school, hospital, and high-tech infrastructure, Celebration was to offer a 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. Compelling and wide-ranging in its analysis, The Celebration Chronicles provides a startlingly fresh perspective on the link between contemporary urban planning and corporate bottom lines.
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Law Sociology Nonfiction
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