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Any Florida Anons here rememberCelebration City-near Orlando, FL, built by Disney -1994
This Anon worked in Orlando & remembers how creepy Celebration City was - very much like a set/ city of movie The Stepford Wives… and, actually, the novel "The Stepford Wives" had a Disney connection;
PLOT: married men of fictional Stepford, Connecticut and their fawning, submissive, impossibly beautiful wives…protagonist Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer newly arrived from New York City w/her husband and children…time goes on, she becomes convinced that the wives of Stepford are being poisoned or brainwashed into submission by the men's club…researching pasts of Stepford's wives, discovering that some of the women were once feminist activists and professionals and theleader of the men's club is a former Disney engineerand others artists, scientists, capable of creating lifelike robots…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives
https://gizmodo.com/celebration-florida-the-utopian-town-that-america-jus-1564479405
Celebration, Florida: The Utopian Town That America Just Couldn't Trust
It's been exactly two decades since Celebration, Florida, broke ground in 1994, a major anniversary for a community that enjoyed a massive amount of media attention when it emerged. Yet we don't hear much about Disney's foray into real estate lately, apart from the odd fire.
The Town of Celebration isn't really a town, in truth. It's technically a census-designated place, which is to say, an unincorporated community. The "town" of, today, almost 8,000 people, is situated on 11 square miles of carefully engineered Floridian swamp. It is, in the simplest sense, just another suburb.
But thanks to its association withDisney and the Klieg lights of the national mediaCelebration is also more than a suburb. It's a paradigm for how contemporary Americans view utopian projects: With a huge amount of suspicion.
A Fresh Start In a World Gone Wrong
Ironically, Celebration was designed as an antidote to what Disney World itself had caused in Central Florida—what Andrew Ross, in The Celebration Chronicles, calls a "purgatory of fast growth and fast food." Instead, Celebration would be "yet another fresh start in a world gone wrong."
It borrowed heavily from a burgeoning young movement called New Urbanism, pioneered by a duo of Miami architects the town of Seaside just a few years before. Without getting into specifics, the idea was simple: To combat the endless, creeping, invasive sprawl that had engulfed millions of acres of the U.S., planners would model their developments on the small towns of early America, with compact downtowns, walkable streets, diverse housing stock, and plentiful public spaces.
WhenArchitecture Is "Creepy"
Everything in Celebration was by design, right down to its salespeople (who are called "cast members," just like their Disney counterparts). Even its signage, designed by MichaelBierut of the New York graphic design powerhouse Pentagramwas carefully calibrated to project a kind of heart-warming familiarity.
The Pixie Dust Wears Off
Other issues dogged Celebration as the years wore on, too. It emerged that the builders who had constructed the homes had been under-qualified and over-rushed, and nearly all of the buildings had problems within a few years. Foreclosures wracked the town after 2008, and in 2010, one resident in danger of losing his home committed suicide after a long police standoff. Only a few days earlier, Celebration had its first murder.
Maybe the problem with Celebration isn't its flaws, but the weariness with which the American public perceives the simple idea of utopia these days. After centuries of struggling to engineer a perfect society, utopia's greatest enemy might turn out to be as simple as a creeping suspicion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida
Celebration a master-planned community in Osceola County, Florida, United States, located near Walt Disney World Resort and originally developed by The Walt Disney Company -part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area
Various New Classical architects participated in the design of buildings in Celebration: Post office was designed by Michael Graves, adjacent Welcome Center by Philip Johnson, the Celebration Health building by Robert A. M. Stern… Well-known architects designed nearby buildings include Charles Moore (Preview Center), Graham GundBohemian HotelCesar Pelli (movie theatre) & Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown (SunTrust Bank).
Lots moar to the Celebration story… this is only a smidge… suffice to say, whenever I visited the town, it creeped me the fuck out - hated the vibe and energy… but, back then I did not know why, did not know as much as I do today!