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Tomorrow’s World That We Shall Build Today

“…Called Project X, "the original EPCOT was a bold New Town scheme intended to show that the problems of present-day American cities were not beyond solution. That it was possible, for example, to eliminate the automobile from the urban equation, or at least minimize its depredations by running service roads under and around city centers and providing cheap, efficient forms of mass transit" 22 . Disney's "utopian dream of a real city" not only focused on building a community with "dependable public transportation", but this perfect city would also be "covered by an allweather dome" and its factories and key industries (which would be "concealed in greenbelts that were readily accessible to workers housed in idyllic suburban subdivisions") would embody the latest innovations in science and technology.…”

“…Disney's "utopian dream of a real city" not only focused on building a community with "dependable public transportation", but this perfect city would also be "covered by an allweather dome" and its factories and key industries (which would be "concealed in greenbelts that were readily accessible to workers housed in idyllic suburban subdivisions") would embody the latest innovations in science and technology. 23 Disney's Project X was the original 'learning city' that would later influence cities like Odaiba. Despite Disney's death, Project X was to finally be transformed into two realities -albeit in revised form.…”

“…More importantly, the second development that Disney's Project X took was in the form of the EPCOT Center, a Disney Corporation theme park that opened its doors in 1982, and which has, as its central theme, the future -specifically, a future supported by the possibilities of scientific and technological advancement in the hands of multi-national corporations. As Marling has stated, EPCOT "became a kind of permanent World's Fair" complete with corporate sponsored pavilions 24 .…”