Celebration
February 10th, 2005There’s a great essay by Witold Rybczynski revisiting Celebration, Orange County’s “Disney town,” on Slate:
The happy exceptions are the bumptious “Mediterranean” houses that occur here and there. They exhibit a good-natured Floridian vulgarity that is refreshing among all the good taste. . . .
What to make of Celebration? Like all American real-estate ventures since colonial days, it’s a mixture of vision, business, and blarney. . . .
The truth is that despite its best efforts, the populist Disney Co. has produced an elitist product.