Celebration Chronicles: My Disney Library

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Andrew Ross spent a year living in the Town of Celebration in order to document Disney’s new town.
From the blurb:

Scholar and iconoclast Andrew Ross spent a year living in the much scrutinized, and often demonized, Celebration–the picture-perfect town that Disney is building for 20,000 people in the swamp and scrub of central Florida. Lavishly planned with a downtown center and newly minted antique homes, and front-loaded with an ultraprogressive school, hospital, and high-tech infrastructure, Celebration was to offer a fresh start in a world gone wrong. Yet behind the picket fences, gleaming facades, and “Kodak moment” streetscapes, Ross discovered a real place with real problems, and not a theme park village cooked up by the Imagineers. Compelling and wide-ranging in its analysis, The Celebration Chronicles provides a startlingly fresh perspective on the link between contemporary urban planning and corporate bottom lines.

There have been a slew of books written about Celebration during its first few years. I will share more over the next few My Library posts.

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