I am an urban planner and planning historian that has a thing for theme parks, amusement parks, and World’s Fairs. This intellectual curiosity lead to a book about Walt Disney’s interest in placemaking entitled Walt and the Promise of Progress City. As you will see, my focus is usually about the history and design of the North American Disney theme parks but I will stray now and again to check out other venues.
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DESIGN: The Disneyland Toontown Urban Transect
In urban design, there is a theory called the Urban Transect. This concept is fundamental to the way we regulate land uses through form based zoning codes. Today and tomorrow, I apply the theory to Toontoon in Disneyland and it actually works!
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SamLand's Disney Adventures: Walt Disney Named to Top 100 Urban Thinkers
n a recent poll conducted by the well-respected urban planning site Planetizen, Walt Disney was ranked 59 by the readers who are mostly professionals in the planning and development trades.
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Urban Planner Walk Through: Liberty Square to Frontierland
"This is one of my favorite things about the Magic Kingdom - how Liberty Square and Frontierland work together to project upon the environment the history of the American western migration. Pretty deep, eh? Let’s step into that time machine and see how the designers pulled off this clever bit of urban design."
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