While researching garden cities I was reminded of something I had been told about the original concept behind Epcot Center at Disney World in Florida. Walt purchased a chunk of land in Florida roughly the size of the island of Manhattan. He had a dream of recreating his Disneyland park there and was very excited with the luxury of not being land locked like he was in Anaheim. He began working on Plans for the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, EPCOT. He saw is as a city center of commerce and expanded into rings of different levels of density and outward into more green space. That plan never came to be but I couldn't help but notice the way it followed Ebeneezer Howard's plans for a garden city or city of tomorrow. No Journals I have found seem to draw that correlation, but I thought I'd let you all be the judge.
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| Original Plan for Epcot |
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