Walt Disney Research Paper

Walt Disney himself was a very nostalgic man. One of his greatest longings was for the resurgence of classic small town Main Streets and the utopian-esc type of community it represented. Walt first incorporated his vision of a main street community within his theme park Disneyland. Building everything the 5/8th scale as well as emphasizing the details of the buildings helped create this sense of nostalgia for the classic Main Street in the visitors to his theme park. While the incorporation of a Main Street USA in his theme park was somewhat of a dream come true for Walt Disney, he had bigger goals. Being the ambitious man that he was, Walt wanted to create a fully functioning utopian-esc community. While designing his second park in the United States, Disney World, Walt saw the perfect opportunity to carry out his desire to creation this community. In the original plans for Disney World, Walt wanted to include a community, designed by him, that people and as well as Disney World workers could live in.

The idea of a Garden City was to have a central hub at the center of the town surrounded by a ring of stores, followed by another ring of houses, followed by a ring of industrial plants, followed finally by a ring of farm land. Walt took this concept and used it for his inspiration while designing his experimental prototype community of tomorrow or EPCOT. Walt Disney ended up passing away in 1966 and his vision of this community was never fulfilled, eventually being replaced with the attraction that is there today, small towns each modeled to represent different places throughout the world, however the park kept the EPCOT acronym. This however, would not be the end for a Disney designed