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Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow [1 record]

Record 1 1991-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tourism (General)
  • Equipment and Facilities (Recreation)
  • Tourism Publicity
OBS

Walt Disney's original concept for Epcot: His Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was intended to be sealed under a glass dome to keep out heat and humidity. It was to have had stores, apartments, schools, churches, offices, marinas, parks, golf courses, a monorail, a vacuum-tube trash-disposal system, a central computer controlling everything from streetlights to hotel reservations -- and it was to have housed temporary residents who were to abide by Disney codes of dress and behavior. Epcot never took that form (...) Epcot today is a permanent world's fair that includes two sets of pavilions; scientific ones that celebrate mankind's technological mastery of the universe and a clutch of foreign lands -- 11 cultural boutiques that fit around a man-made lagoon as a symbol of human fellowship.

Key term(s)
  • EPCOT Centre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tourisme (Généralités)
  • Installations et équipement (Loisirs)
  • Stimulation du tourisme
OBS

Il s'agira de "la plus importante exposition permanente" (...) de tout ce que les pays industrialisés nous réservent pour les années 2000 (...)

Spanish

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