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The garden city that never was

July 17, 2018 by James Hennessy in politics, design

To Walt, the looming failures of the postwar liberal consensus were mere problems of efficiency. His specific mode of technocracy preempted by decades the Silicon Valley mode of thinking that now pervades our thoughts about sociopolitical organisation. If the broader community structures of a city could be aided by technological solutions, guided by universal design principles, then logic dictated that such a city simply could not fail.

A little multimedia bit I did about Walt Disney's original, bizarre EPCOT vision – a huge futuristic city constructed on thousands of acres of Florida swampland.

July 17, 2018 /James Hennessy
politics, disney, city
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