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Celebrating A New Urbanist Utopia

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan

2 July 2006 - 11:00am

How is Celebtration, FL, Disney's experiment to build a New Urbanist utopia, faring ten years after the first residents moved in?

"Despite the growth, many agree that Celebration has retained the very qualities that drew them here: crime-free neighborhoods, pedestrian-friendly streets and a near-universal desire to know one’s neighbors.

There’s one thing that Celebration doesn’t have, not yet, anyway..."

Full Story: Fantasyland or real town?
Source: The St. Petersburg Times, July 1, 2006
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Planners, architects, artists, and other community members can make the exploratory walk a key tool in re-making places, stemming from the emotions and atmospheres perceived by people who live there or visit them, and plan outward from the experiential, toward trajectories, shapes, and physical structures.
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