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Celebration,
U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town. Douglas
Frantz & Catherine Collins.
Published in 1999, this book chronicles
the two-year stay of the husband-and-wife authors and their
two children in Walt Disney Company's Town of Celebration
outside Orlando, Florida. A history of the company in Florida
and the town's creation give the family's experiences a
context beyond the love it or hate it attitude that people
have adopted in response to the idea of Disney extending
its market and influence to town planning. The first-hand
accounts from the authors, and their interviews with residents,
ground the book in reality, a reality that collided with
the hopes and dreams of people who moved to Celebration
looking for a better place to live. In the end, the book
is an account of both the town's physical reality and the
people who believed in its potential.
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