Celebration, Florida, is perhaps the most successful planned community in the country, having recently won a coveted Florida state civic award. What many people don't know is that Walt Disney's original concept for what later became Epcot® at Walt Disney World was exactly what Celebration is today-a thriving town where people live, work, go to school, attend to their health-care needs, shop, dine out, bank, and have myriad recreational opportunities. The richly illustrated Celebration: The Story of a Town explores the history of planned communities in America; the original concepts for Celebration complete with input from architects, social historians, and perhaps most important, local residents; and the ups and downs of this unique community as it establishes itself as one of Florida's most desired addresses.
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In this book, Michael Lassell delivers a remarkably balanced and intimate portrait of this fascinating Florida town. In all ways, Mr. Lassell's book is far superior to Ross's The Celebration Chronicles and Frantz and Collins's Celebration USA. The text and the scores of beautiful photographs capture the magic of the town and enable the reader to understand why Celebration is considered by many to be the most significant new town to be developed in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Terrible DVD - don't waste your money,
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I bought this, high priced DVD because we just visited Celebration and had read a few things about it. We were thinking about buying a place there, but there is no way that I would do that after watching this film.
The film itself is of 6th grade quality. The people talking are robots (not the type that I would want to have as neighbors), and half of them are either in their kitchens baking or moving out of town because they don't like the way things are going. I can't tell what they are trying to do with the film, but it turned me off to the place, if this is the type of film that would be trying to show you what it's like to live there. Don't waste your money
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Great Disney / Celbration Book,
By Ed H "EdH" (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Celebration - The Story of a Town (Hardcover)
This is a great book full of beautiful photos of Celebration. Makes me want to pack up and move there!
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Osceola County, Town Hall, Walt Disney, Celebration School, Disney World, Celebration Health, Market Street, Michael Eisner, Peter Rummell, Perry Reader, Wing Chao, Celebration Place, Main Street, Michael Graves, United States, Celebration Avenue, Celebration Pattern Book, Memorial Garden, Celebration Foundation, Pat Wasson, Randy Johnson, Celebration High School, Front Street, Lexin Capital, New Yorker New!
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Osceola County, Town Hall, Walt Disney, Celebration School, Disney World, Celebration Health, Market Street, Michael Eisner, Peter Rummell, Perry Reader, Wing Chao, Celebration Place, Main Street, Michael Graves, United States, Celebration Avenue, Celebration Pattern Book, Memorial Garden, Celebration Foundation, Pat Wasson, Randy Johnson, Celebration High School, Front Street, Lexin Capital, New Yorker New!
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- Work in Progress by Michael Eisner on page 28
- Trends and Innovations in Master-Planned Communities by Adrienne Schmitz on page 45
- An American Celebration by Celebration Women's Club on page 111
- Inside the Dream by Katherine & Richard Greene in Back Matter
- Walt Disney (A See and Read Biography) by Greta Walker on page 73
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