The landscape of power refers to the psychical surroundings, social practices and their symbolic representation. In landscapes of power, interactions are taking place between ‘space of flows’ (global markets) and ‘space of places’ (local place). The economic and political power influence how these interactions take place. These powerful institutions and networks can weaken, reshape and displace the view of the local place which is also discussed in question 1. This process is shown in the landscapes of power: Gentrification and Disney World. The landscape of gentrification refers to a local place that attempts to connect with the globalized markets (‘space of flows’). They are ‘forced’ to recapture the value of the vernacular by changing it …show more content…
This landscape of power consists of theming, entertainment and storytelling to lure people to the ‘consumption’ spaces. The images and symbols of the vernacular are used to create a ‘sense of place’. It is all about creating fantasies, spectacular experiences and creating facades, without showing the global corporate power behind it. The architecture meets the desires of the global market. For instance, Las Vegas used the architecture of the Eiffel tower in their landscape and Dubai is creating a second Louvre museum (Paris). The cultural symbols and images are drawn from the original vernacular and used to create a new vernacular. An important characteristic is that those spaces are controlled and secured by the corporate businesses. In this landscape of power, the global corporates and networks create the landscape with almost none consideration of the local community. The role of leisure in the landscape of Disney World relates to entertainment by staging experiences and using spectacle images for creating an attractive space. Leisure is therefore part of the structure of the landscape with the aim of creating a ‘sense of place’. In this perspective, leisure is aimed at luring people to consume. Entertainment (leisure) also causes social control through the facades. In the landscape of power, the role of leisure is forming the spaces of consumption and attracting people to these …show more content…
While the landscape of Disney World uses the image of Paris (Eiffel tower) for the creation of a vernacular. In other words, the landscape of gentrification is connected to a local place with a local community and the landscape of Disney is creating a local place (‘sense of place’). Another difference is the role of power. The landscape of gentrification is characterized by cultural producers and symbolic creators, while the landscape of power is characterized by global corporate power. This indicates that there is a difference in “market forces” that change the landscape. This refers to the underlying process of creative destruction, which is an ongoing process of destroying the old and creating a new one. Zukin (1993) explains that this is not only an economic process but also links to a social and cultural context. As consequence of these processes the local place has been diminished (destroying the old) and this created opportunities for the landscape of power (creating a new one). This broken relation between place-defining and market-defining processes is the basic problem because capital moves and the community doesn’t. With a result that market (‘space of flows’) forces dominate the place (‘space of places’) which lead to creative destruction. This results that places become more homogeneous and also more heterogeneous. Thus, creative destruction
Harm de Blij and his “The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization’s Rough Landscape” truly describes how geography is displayed in the world today. In particular on of the major themes that he discusses is the idea of globalization. He actually calls these people the “globals.” In the very beginning of his book he describes two different types of peoples: Locals and Globals. The difference between these people is that Locals are the poorer people, not as mobile, and more susceptible to the concept of place. On the other hand the Globals are the fortunate population, and are a small group of people who have experienced globalization firsthand (5). This idea of globalization is a main theme that Blij refers to throughout the book, however he also indirectly references the five themes of cultural geography: culture regions, cultural diffusion, cultural interaction, cultural ecology, and cultural landscapes. Through Blij’s analysis these five themes are revealed in detail and help explain his overall idea of globalization in the world today.
After recording the behaviors of disabled and nondisabled guests at Downtown Disney, it became evident that the social construction of disability may have an influence on the amount of interest or engagement shown between individuals. Based on the observations recorded, it appears that the nondisabled people seemed to show a lack of interest or regard for the disabled people involved in the interactions. Although it may not have been overt, it seemed nondisabled people exhibited subtle signs of superiority over disabled people, appearing to treat them as if they were helpless or burdensome.
Ever since I was a child, my family and I have been Disney fanatics. The Disney empire has created many amazing places, but my favorite location to visit is the Walt Disney World Resort. Every day 50,000 people from all over the world arrive at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida to experience the magic. When the park first opened its gates in 1971, 10,000 visitors made their way through. That number has multiplied five-fold and continues to multiply to this day. Since the 1971 opening, over 600 million people have experienced the magic of Disney. In my lifetime, I have visited the park with my family and friends six times. Each visit lasted four days in order to experience all the parks and their unique offerings. When I’m in Disney World, the experience each time is incredible.
One’s sense of place is determined by where they feel comfortable, at home, or simply welcomed. Millions of people consider their sense of place as being in an urban setting, but millions more are cast out of the urban space. What causes this “urban unevenness”? There are many factors to consider when thinking about the urban divide including race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and physical and mental health to name a few. Massey’s essay, “Global Sense of Place”, discusses what she calls “time-space compression” which can explain why some people feel included in an urban space and others are excluded. Massey’s idea of “sense of place” is furthered by looking at examples from Williamson’s accounts of the destruction
In the case study, CEO Eisner have idea of American history theme park within area of battlefield in Prince William County, Virginia. Eisner’s idea of building historical theme over property that already made its mark within American would be redundant. Disney’s conceptual plan was to use 650 million and authorized $130 million in local roads to serve it (Argenti, 2013, p.234). The first vulnerable would be the public opinion for and against the proposal land usage. When news first come out of a theme park being place near DC there was fifty anti-Disney rallied in protest while several hundred children was dressed to simulate as 101 Dalmatians in ...
[1] Information was mainly taken from the Harvard Business Case Study “The Walt Disney Company: The Entertainment King”
From the quaint café on the corner of First and Main that booms on Sunday mornings, to the community park and pond where families feed the ducks and children play in the midday sun, reminders of an urban area’s identity are scattered within its limits. This identity is composed of a certain level of community shared by the inhabitants of urban areas, and this sense of community develops over generations as people become personally intertwined with other people and structures contained within the fabric of their environment. This sense of community is the heartbeat of thriving urban centers and is what encourages people to take pride in their city — to take pride in their home. It is therefore alarming when one rounds the corner of Main to discover their favorite café has closed up shop, or the duck pond is gated because of contaminated water, or the historical home is deserted and falling apart. As building blocks of community like the café, pond, or the home are eliminated, the identity of urban environments is lost. Cities’ sense of being erodes and the vitality and joy of the area and its inhabitants decays.
A basic of Disney theme parks is the Main Street USA zone. This section features highly in all of the parks, usually coming right after the entrance. Key services like Guest Relations are located in this section, inside the "City Hall" (HK Disney Source, 2014). There are a number of elements to the Main Street, USA exhibit, and these will be discussed along with the history of Main Street USA in this paper. In particular, how the different elements of Main Street USA work together are covered. The concept has proven to be long-lasting, even across cultures, because of its magical portrayal of idealized American life, which draws heavily on Walt Disney's own childhood experiences.
The brand image that is created by the park goes with what they portray as they have set up sections that are comprising of the featured movie or show. The cleanliness aspect and the environment creates and delivers a symbolic difference to the whole theme park (Richard, 1993). The management have made their efforts in maintaining the same feeling, as they employees and the staff is dressed and the procedure so the park is carried out in pure joyous manner. They have the shows that have the characters from the movie, especially the stage shows and they are dressed up in the form of the characters giving a jubilant feel to the travellers and the tourists. As there is advancement seen in all market, people and tourists are getting more informed about the entertainment industry they prefer more to their entertainment package (Golob, 2003). With this advancement, people tend to be wise and more informed, raising the bar of standard and requirement that are offered by the entertainment theme park. As the management staff knows that now people are more vibrant and have gathered data about what they will be offered, they are no more interested in listening to the stories and the fairy tales that are described to them (Ashwell, 2015). They have a tendency to adapt to the environment and want to be the part of the whole story. As this requirement has grown in the market, management has successfully made the changes to the strategies they have been implementing and they have been working on. These favourable changes have resulted in displaying the enjoyable changes to the theme park and helps them to changing market requirement and demand (Vogt & Andereck,
Again, this section will give a working definition of the “urban question’. To fully compare the political economy and ecological perspectives a description of the “urban question” allows the reader to better understand the divergent schools of thought. For Social Science scholars, from a variety of disciplines, the “urban question” asks how space and the urban or city are related (The City Reader, 2009). The perspective that guides the ecological and the social spatial-dialect schools of thought asks the “urban question” in separate distinct terminology. Respected scholars from the ecological mode of thinking, like Burgess, Wirth and others view society and space from the rationale that geographical scope determines society (The City Reader, 2009). The “urban question” that results from the ecological paradigm sees the relationship between the city (space) as influencing the behaviors of individuals or society in the city. On the other hand...
The first theme park opening in 1955 was Disneyland in California. After one full year of construction demands and a total investment of $17 million the Six thousands invitations to the grand opening had been mailed inviting people to experience the magic Disney had created but when the gates opened the Disneyland was far from magical. Workmen were still planting trees, the paint was still wet and the asphalt wasn’t set. The food stalls and restaurants ran out of food due to the high number of people because of counterfeit tickets being sold. Walt Disney didn’t know didn’t know what was going on because his attention was on the live broadcast. The rides broke down shortly after use. When Walt Disney World opened in 1971 the
Consumer culture plays a key role in the economy. Today, the ways in which urban spaces are arranged facilitate the consumption of goods. One only needs to look to modern cities such as New York, London or Tokyo in order to recognise the countless forms of advertisement intended to lure the mass population into spending money on various merchandises, from novelty items to luxury products. The use of built structures to facilitate the display of retail products for the consumption of the masses is nothing new. After its renovation, Paris became a model innovative city planning and construction for a lot of modern cities that exist today. The wide boulevards and open spaces engaged the mass population and encouraged consumerism.
A city has to be beautiful, though the definition of “beauty” is so vague. The beauty can be physical, such as enjoyable parks, streetscapes, architectural facades, the sky fragment through freeways and trees; or it can be the beauty of livelihood, people, and history. As landscape architects, we are creating beautiful things or turning the unpleasant memorial.
An urban landscape will always have a reason as to why it was assembled. Throughout time, each and every individual that has encountered a place will grow a significant memory and particular feeling to it. In the book, Cultural Geographies: An Introduction by John Horton and Peter Kraftl, has acknowledged that “Landscapes make us feel, act, or speak in a particular way - they do particular things to us when we look at them.” In many ways, this statement is true. If someone goes to a camping site and start reminiscing all their childhood memories, they begin to get emotional, saddened, or happy. It does not matter if it is a good or bad memory, the landscape is in control of them at that moment. Although there are so many urban landscapes that
Film induced tourism has grown in every aspect around the globe whether its because of the curiosity of the people to indulge in this kind of tourism or just being a part of the artificial world. Then it comes to define film tourism many authors have different views, according to Hudson and Ritch (2006a), it is describe as people visiting places which are directly influenced by films to see the landscapes, building, places as it was shown on TV, advertisement or in cinema screen. In addition to the meaning above for film induced tourism, Riley & Van Doren, (1992) further added that people visiting these places may be overwhelm with the romantic gaze of the place, and feel emotionally attached to it and also with the focal points of the film such as actors and their attributes, where they used to live, themes, social patterns and so on. However this essay will also discuss the originality of film tourism and its implications towards the destination and how it effects the local culture and community.