1990's Fashion | The Celebration Chronicles

Nonfiction work

By: Andrew Ross

Date: 1999

Source: Ross, Andrew. The Celebration Chronicles. New York: Ballantine, 1999, 4–6, 9–10, 14, 17–19.

About the Author: Andrew Ross (1956–), born in Scotland, is a cultural critic and professor of American Studies at New York University. In 1997, he lived in Disney's New Urbanist town, Celebration, Florida, and wrote a frank and ambivalent account of his experience.

Introduction

Located just south of Orlando, Celebration is an old-fashioned small town that was built from the ground up in the mid-1990s by the Walt Disney Company. Situated on about 5,000 acres of recovered swamp and farmland, the planned community cost some $2.5 billion dollars to build. The town plan and the design of its structures are Disney's interpretation of New Urbanism ideals, which, in broad terms, oppose the spread of suburbs and...