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The Celebration Chronicles

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town

By Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

By Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

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Category: Nonfiction

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Mar 16, 2011 | ISBN 9780307788467

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About The Celebration Chronicles

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.

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About Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

Andrew Ross is professor and director of the American studies program at New York University. A writer for Artforum, The Nation, The Village Voice, and many other publications, he is the author or editor of ten previous books, including Real… More about Andrew Ross, Ph.D.

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Category: Nonfiction

Ebook | $4.99
Published by Ballantine Books
Mar 16, 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9780307788467

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"Entertaining . . . Insightful . . . Ross is a raconteur with delicious–and telling–anecdotes."
–The New York Times Book Review

"Our first astronaut-in-residence on Planet Disney returns with astonishing tales of its strange life-forms and customs. As an explorer of brave new worlds, Ross is a shrewd cross between Jonathan Swift and C. Wright Mills."
–MIKE DAVIS
   Bestselling author of Ecology of Fear and City of Quartz

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