Themed Lands and
Global Metaphors:
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LEFT: George
Rester (Architectural Director) RIGHT: Restaurant Marakesch |
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A comparative study of the spatial organization
of the 1955 Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, the 1964 New York
World’s Fair, Walt Disney’s Experimental Prototype Community
for Tomorrow, 1966, and Epcot Center, 1982, provide the material with
which to understand this shift to a global attention in the image production
and architectural articulation of the Walt Disney Company. This shift is characterized by the incorporation of culturally
specific motifs and narratives as well as by the creation of projects
which form close visual and spatial bonds to World’s Fairs.The collapsing of
reality and fantasy at Epcot Center will demonstrate how Utopian urban planning ideals
are actualized at the Kingdom of Morocco pavilion.
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LEFT: George Rester (Architectural
Director) RIGHT: George Rester (Architectural Director) |
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Table
of Contents |
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List of Illustrations | 1 | |
I. Introduction | 7 | |
Designing Utopia | 13 | |
Control as a Tool in the Architectural Design and Planning of the Disney Parks | 17 | |
Cultural Imperialism: Exportation of Disney Architectural Environments | 24 | |
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow | 28 | |
Kingdom of Morocco Pavilion | 34 | |
II. Disneyland and the 1964 New York World’s Fair | 43 | |
The Spatial Formation of Disneyland | 44 | |
Temporal Formations in the Disneyland Park | 52 | |
Disneyland and the Intersection of Image and Architecture | 55 | |
Walt Disney and the 1964 New York World’s Fair | 64 | |
III. EPCOT and Epcot Center: Utopian City/Amusement Park | 70 | |
Traces of Disneyland in the Master Plan of Walt Disney World | 72 | |
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow | 76 | |
The End of
EPCOT, the Creation of Epcot Center: World’s Fairs and Amusement Parks |
91 | |
Epcot Center: Structuring a Permanent World’s Fair | 95 | |
IV. Morocco at the World’s Fairs and Epcot Center | 101 | |
Morocco’s History of Presence and Design at World’s Fairs | 106 | |
Planning the Kingdom of Morocco Pavilion, Epcot Center | 113 | |
V. The Kingdom of Morocco Pavilion: Framing the Unreal | 124 | |
The Didactic Pavilion: Text, Display and Presence | 124 | |
Framing the Unreal | 141 | |
Appendix A: Informational Plaques within the Morocco Pavilion, Epcot Center | 151 | |
Appendix B: Walt Disney Company Themed Amusement Parks | 154 | |
Appendix C: Transcripts of Dedication Ceremonies and Radio Interviews Related to Disneyland and the 1964 New York World's Fair | 156 | |
Appendix D: Future World Pavilion Themes and Corporate Sponsors | 161 | |
Bibliography | 162 | |
Illustrations | 165 |