Walt Disney And The Quest For Community

Author : Steve Mannheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317000570

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During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities. His development concept at the time of his death on December 15th, 1966 would be his team’s conceptual response to the ills of the inner cities and the sprawl of the megalopolis: the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow or, as it became known, EPCOT. This beautifully written, instantly engrossing volume focuses on the original concept of EPCOT, which was conceived by Disney as an experimental community of about 20,000 people on the Disney World property in central Florida. With its radial plan, 50-acre town center enclosed by a dome, themed international shopping area, greenbelt, high-density apartments, satellite communities, monorail and underground roads, the original EPCOT plan is reminiscent of post-war Stockholm and the British New Towns, as well as today's transit-oriented development theory. Unfortunately, Disney himself did not live long enough to witness the realization of his model city. However, EPCOT's evolution into projects such as the EPCOT Center and the town of Celebration displays a remarkable commitment by the Disney organization to the original EPCOT philosophy, one which continues to have relevance in the fields of planning and development.

Author : Steve Mannheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : OCLC:78101637

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Author : Steve Mannheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317000587

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Walt Disney and the Quest for Community by Steve Mannheim Pdf

During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities. His development concept at the time of his death on December 15th, 1966 would be his team’s conceptual response to the ills of the inner cities and the sprawl of the megalopolis: the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow or, as it became known, EPCOT. This beautifully written, instantly engrossing volume focuses on the original concept of EPCOT, which was conceived by Disney as an experimental community of about 20,000 people on the Disney World property in central Florida. With its radial plan, 50-acre town center enclosed by a dome, themed international shopping area, greenbelt, high-density apartments, satellite communities, monorail and underground roads, the original EPCOT plan is reminiscent of post-war Stockholm and the British New Towns, as well as today's transit-oriented development theory. Unfortunately, Disney himself did not live long enough to witness the realization of his model city. However, EPCOT's evolution into projects such as the EPCOT Center and the town of Celebration displays a remarkable commitment by the Disney organization to the original EPCOT philosophy, one which continues to have relevance in the fields of planning and development.

Author : Neal Gabler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679757474

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Walt Disney by Neal Gabler Pdf

The definitive portrait of one of the most important cultural figures in American history: Walt Disney. Walt Disney was a true visionary whose desire for escape, iron determination and obsessive perfectionism transformed animation from a novelty to an art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films–most notably Snow White, Fantasia, and Bambi. In his superb biography, Neal Gabler shows us how, over the course of two decades, Disney revolutionized the entertainment industry. In a way that was unprecedented and later widely imitated, he built a synergistic empire that combined film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise. Walt Disney is a revelation of both the work and the man–of both the remarkable accomplishment and the hidden life. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography USA Today Biography of the Year

Author : Stephen Rowley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137493286

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Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs by Stephen Rowley Pdf

Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places.

Author : Michael Barrier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520256194

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The Animated Man by Michael Barrier Pdf

Film and televsion.

Author : Michael G. Goldsby,Rob Mathews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429679384

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Entrepreneurship the Disney Way by Michael G. Goldsby,Rob Mathews Pdf

This book focuses on the business story of Walt Disney and the company he built. Combining a unique blend of entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and a relentless drive to bring out the best in his teams, Walt Disney created one of the most successful ventures in business history. Outlining the specific processes of the company, Goldsby and Mathews provide the reader with the tools they need to embrace their own entrepreneurial leadership style, to lead effectively, to be more innovative, and to build a successful organization. Through the lens of Disney, the reader learns the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership. Beginning with a general introduction to the concepts relevant to the entrepreneurial organization today, the book examines how Disney built his empire and how the company remains an industry leader. The book also provides the opportunity to take the Entrepreneurial Leadership Instrument, which measures one’s style in leading entrepreneurial ventures. The book is divided into two parts: • Part I provides an overview of Disney’s entrepreneurial journey, including the topics of vision, risk-taking, financing, and human resource management; • Part II examines the company’s transition from a family business into a global operation, including topics such as succession planning and strategy. Part II also explores Disney Parks and Resorts, the part of the company that interacts directly with customers, including topics such as culture, employee engagement, customer service, and customer experience. Entrepreneurship the Disney Way brings entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership to life through the compelling story of one of the most recognizable businessmen and companies of our time. The authors’ interviews with high-level executives provides the reader with a rare inside look into the way his company functions. Disney fans, executives, and students of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership will find it a delightful and informing read.

Author : Peter Norton
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642832402

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Autonorama by Peter Norton Pdf

In Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, historian Peter Norton argues that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive "mobility solutions" that tech companies and automakers are promising us. The salesmanship behind the "driverless future" is distracting us from better ways to get around that we can implement now. Unlike autonomous vehicles, these alternatives are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive. Norton takes the reader on an engaging ride--from the GM Futurama exhibit to "smart" highways and vehicles--to show how we are once again being sold car dependency in the guise of mobility. Autonorama is hopeful, advocating for wise, proven, humane mobility that we can invest in now, without waiting for technology that is forever just out of reach.

Author : Smaranda Spanu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030182595

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Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation by Smaranda Spanu Pdf

This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The fundamental understandings of heritage, its evolution and practices all reveal intrinsic heterotopic features (the mirror function, its utopic drive, and its enclave-like nature). The book draws on previous interpretations of heterotopia and argues for a reading of heritage as heterotopia, considering various heritage mechanisms – heritage selection, conservation and protection practices, and heritage as mnemonic device – in this regard. Reworking the six heterotopic principles, an analysis grid is designed and applied to various built heritage spaces (vernacular, religious architecture, urban 19th century ensembles). Guided through this theoretical itinerary, the reader will rediscover the heterotopic lens as a minor, yet promising, Foucauldian device that allows for a better understanding of heritage and its everyday practices.

Author : Joan M. Marter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 3140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780195335798

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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Joan M. Marter Pdf

Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

Author : Vernon D. Swaback
Publisher : Urban Land Institute
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000110440694

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Creating Value by Vernon D. Swaback Pdf

This groundbreaking book argues convincingly that financial success in real estate development will increasingly require design that is smarter, greener, and more sustainable. It also provides examples of how this can be incorporated into a wide variety of real estate development projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : City planning
ISBN : UOM:39015058783898

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Urban Land by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674745445

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Thinking Small by Daniel Immerwahr Pdf

Winner of the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians Co-Winner of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award Thinking Small tells the story of how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. And it also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, with often disastrous consequences. “Unfortunately, far from eliminating deprivation and attacking the social status quo, bottom-up community development projects often reinforced them...This is a history with real stakes. If that prior campaign’s record is as checkered as Thinking Small argues, then its intellectual descendants must do some serious rethinking... How might those in twenty-first-century development and anti-poverty work forge a better path? They can start by reading Thinking Small.” —Merlin Chowkwanyun, Boston Review “As the historian Daniel Immerwahr demonstrates brilliantly in Thinking Small, the history of development has seen constant experimentation with community-based and participatory approaches to economic and social improvement...Immerwahr’s account of these failures should give pause to those who insist that going small is always better than going big.” —Jamie Martin, The Nation

Author : Jeff Kurtti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131726908

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Walt Disney's Legends of Imagineering and the Genesis of the Disney Theme Park by Jeff Kurtti Pdf

50 years ago, Walt Disney utterly transformed the concept of outdoor entertainment venues. Using his innate talent for combining disparate skills and personalities, he assembled a creative team that blended imagination with engineering and called them 'Imagineers'. Kurtti introduces a core group of the originators of Disneyland and the other Disney parks. He explores their individual relationships with Walt and each other, their creative breakthroughs and failure, their rivalries and professional politics. Lavishly illustrated with rare never-before-seen photos.

Author : Sam Gennawey
Publisher : Ayefour Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 0615540244

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Walt and the Promise of Progress City by Sam Gennawey Pdf

Walt Disney's vision for a city of tomorrow, EPCOT, would be a way for American corporations to show how technology, creative thinking, and hard work could change the world. He saw this project as a way to influence the public's expectations about city life, in the same way his earlier work had redefined what it meant to watch an animated film or visit an amusement park. Walt and the Promise of Progress City is a personal journey that explores the process through which meaningful and functional spaces have been created by Walt Disney and his artists as well as how guests understand and experience those spaces.