The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town - Couverture rigide

Ross, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0345417518 ISBN 13 : 9780345417510

Editeur : Ballantine Books, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Ross PhD Andrew

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

"Entertaining . . . Insightful . . . Ross is a raconteur with delicious--and telling--anecdotes."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Our first astronaut-in-residence on Planet Disney returns with astonishing tales of its strange life-forms and customs. As an explorer of brave new worlds, Ross is a shrewd cross between Jonathan Swift and C. Wright Mills."
--MIKE DAVIS
   Bestselling author of Ecology of Fear and City of Quartz

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ballantine Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0345417518
• ISBN 13: 9780345417510
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible