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  Inventing the "Jet Age" in America
Disney's experimental EPCOT community attempted to be the city of the future by first providing a controlled climate, second by incorporating many of the garden city concepts, and thirdly by creating a transportation system that brought people back as pedestrians.
As with most planned communities of the time such as Levittown and the Greenbelt Programs, the community members would be selected in order to form the most ideal society as possible and isolate them from the dangers of traditional public life.
The first was the concept of having a controlled climate for all citizens of the community, the second was the construction of a garden city, and the third and final was the creation of a transportation system that allowed community members to travel freely within the bounds of the community.
www.sjsu.edu /depts/commstudies/woz/woz3/woz3d.html   (1032 words)

  
  Epcot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The community was to have been built in the shape of a circle, with businesses and commercial areas at its center, community buildings and schools and recreational complexes around it, and residential neighborhoods along the perimeter.
Because the idea of EPCOT was never implemented, the Disney Corporation remained almost the sole landowner in the district allowing it to maintain control of the RCID and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista.
The Epcot theme park was originally known as EPCOT Center to reflect the fact that the park was built to embody the ideals and values of EPCOT the city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epcot   (3545 words)

  
 Epcot - Mickeypedia: The Disney Encyclopedia! Walt Disney World, Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
The name Epcot is from the acronym EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney.
The community was to have been built in the shape of a circle, with businesses and commercial areas at its center, community buildings and schools and recreational complexes around it, and residential neighborhoods along the perimeter.
Because the idea of EPCOT was never implemented, the Disney Corporation remained almost the sole landowner in the district allowing it to maintain control of the RCID and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista.
www.mickeypedia.com /articles/Disney/Epcot.html   (2412 words)

  
 Walt Disney World - EPCOT
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT as we know it, was Walt Disney’s vision for the future.
Epcot’s icon is Spaceship Earth, commonly referred to as “the giant golf ball.” Its theme is a World’s Fair of ideas and technology from around the globe.
Though the official park name is now simply “Epcot,” it was originally an acronym standing for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.” The name truly encompassed the idea behind the park, a utopian ideal where people of all races, creeds, and nationalities could come together to build a better future.
disneyworld.orlandovacation.com /Epcot.php   (2554 words)

  
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EPCOT In February of 1967, two months after Walt Disney’s death, Walt Disney Productions announced that it would be going ahead with the project closest to Walt’s heart at the time of his death, a “city of tomorrow” to be built adjacent to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.
And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.” In the film Walt explained in detail his dream of creating a community that would be a technological and futuristic utopia.
Walt continued to explain that EPCOT would be grounded in a concern “with the public need.” To serve this need “EPCOT will be an experimental city that would incorporate the best ideas of industry, government, and academia worldwide, a city that caters to the people as a service function.
xroads.virginia.edu /~ma98/hogan/celebration/EPCOT.txt   (869 words)

  
 Widen Your World - The Original EPCOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
EPCOT was the driving force behind Walt's entire Florida vision, the end goal of a fantastic voyage.
During this press conference he spoke of both "a model community" where the employees of his development would live and a "city of tomorrow." But the public's interest at the time was focused on Disney's plans for a theme park and recreational facilities, not on futuristic cities.
Nunis, who had years earlier suggested that the EPCOT plans Walt left behind were sketchy at best, responded by asking, "Isn't this a city?" He offered by way of example the fact that thousands of guests spent the night on Walt Disney World property every evening, and they were real people.
home.cfl.rr.com /omniluxe/epcot.htm   (2186 words)

  
 Epcot
Walt felt that EPCOT should be grounded in a concern "with the public need." To serve this need EPCOT would be "an experimental city that would incorporate the best ideas of industry, government, and academia worldwide, a city that caters to the people as a service function.
EPCOT was developed as a different kind of theme park which embraced Walt's interest in technology and futuristic architecture.
EPCOT's symbolic structure is a geodome that represents on a small scale the dome under which EPCOT's original inhabitants were to reside.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA98/hogan/celebration/epcot.htm   (1377 words)

  
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But the permanent community that he envisioned wasn't to be and is only now taking shape, in a '90s way, in Disney's Celebration, an urban planner's dream of a town near grown-like-Topsy Kissimmee.
Until the debut of Celebration, the closest entity to Walt's vision was Epcot, which opened in 1982, 16 years after Disney's death--a showcase, ostensibly, for the concepts that would be incorporated into the real-life Epcots of the future.
Epcot is known for its imaginative fountains; the one at Living Seas, the first satellite pavilion on the western outer ring, flings surf in a never-ending wave against a rock garden beneath the stylized marquee.
www.orlandopoolhomes.com /epcotguide.htm   (7163 words)

  
 Fun Facts of Epcot
When Epcot opened the grand water fountain had a leak in it and someone had to be down under the fountain during hours the park was open.
EPCOT was not originally supposed to be a theme park; Disney wanted to really make it an "experimental prototype community of tomorrow" and let people live in the many different places of the park.
REPORTED: Ellen S. While EPCOT Center was originally planned as an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow", we all know that financial as well as other considerations dictated that the dream of Walt Disney be changed from a city to a new gated attraction.
www.oitc.com /Disney/WDW/Epcot/Secrets/General.html   (4804 words)

  
 The Original EPCOT
EPCOT was the driving force behind Walt's entire Florida vision, the end goal of a fantastic voyage.
During this press conference he spoke of both "a model community" where the employees of his development would live and a "city of tomorrow." But the public's interest at the time was focused on Disney's plans for a theme park and recreational facilities, not on futuristic cities.
Nunis, who had years earlier suggested that the EPCOT plans Walt left behind were sketchy at best, responded by asking, "Isn't this a city?" He offered by way of example the fact that thousands of guests spent the night on Walt Disney World property every evening, and they were real people.
www.freewebtown.com /wdwandmore/epcot_history.htm   (2050 words)

  
 Disneygeek - WDW - Parks - EPCOT
It was supposed to be the city of tomorrow and a showcase of American ingenuity.
EPCOT (originally called EPCOT Center) was the second Disney themepark to open on the Florida property.
EPCOT is Disney's Largest theme park to date (yes Animal Kingdom has a larger land area, but most of the park is off limits to guests and reserved for Animals only or the attractions themselves).
www.disneygeek.com /wdw/wdw.php?filename=parks/parks_ep_main§ion=Parks&menu=2&title=EPCOT   (842 words)

  
 WALT DISNEY AND THE QUEST FOR COMMUNITY--EPCOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
EPCOT would be an experimental community of about 20,000 persons and incorporate prototype products from partners in American industry.
In addition, EPCOT would be closely linked to an industrial park and the rest of Disney World.
It is a well-documented historical account of the decision-making processes regarding EPCOT as well as a description of the ideas that influenced the concept.
waltquest.com /waltdisneyandthequestforcommunityepcotbystevemannheim   (867 words)

  
 Epcot Future World - Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
As he stated "it will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems."
Walt Disney World's Epcot may not be what he initially proposed, but it has become a destination that he would be proud of.
It covers 260 acres and is almost twice the size of the Magic Kingdom.
www.wdwinfo.com /wdwinfo/guides/epcot/ep-futureworld.htm   (658 words)

  
 20th Birthday For Epcot
This is from the transcript of "Walt's last film" a 20+ minute preview to EPCOT that Walt recorded in October 1966.With help from props and animation he outlined, for the media and interest groups, his plans for the Florida Project - Disney World and especially the details for EPCOT.
It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing, and testing and demonstrating new materials and new systems.
If you will be going to EPCOT soon, I have listed some special events you can find over the next few months starting with the announcement that the 100 Years Of Magic Celebration has been extended to Feb. 28, 2003.
www.dizneypins.com /EPCOT.htm   (2008 words)

  
 disneyfarm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Disney's EPCOT Center debuted in 1984, the conception of Walt Disney's Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow.
EPCOT's main goal was to provide a place where families could come to be informed and entertained.
The peach you eat tomorrow may be the product of a tissue sample, with an inverted gene code, ripe, fresh and ready for eating.
www.lclark.edu /~soan221/97/Disney.genitic.html   (516 words)

  
 Welcome to Epcot!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Epcot was the second theme park to be built at Walt Disney World.
It was decided that Walt Disney's original proposal for a planned community was unrealistic and that Epcot could not be a showplace and a place to live.
At the bottom of each page there is an "Epcot Transportation" button that allows you to navigate throughout Epcot, return to to my home page or tour the other parks.
pages.prodigy.com /WaltDisneyWorld/epcot.htm   (285 words)

  
 Prototype - Experimental Prototype Community
EPCOT It stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (not, as some weary visitors have christened it, Every Person Comes Out Tired).
Walt Disney's EPCOT ?(meaning an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) is a two-part project with no end in sight.
To be specific he wanted EPCOT, which stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow to be the new city, with its own residents.
prototype.profitfornow.net /experimentalprototypecommunity   (331 words)

  
 Welcome to Waltopia!
His development concept at the time of his death on December 15th, 1966 would be his team's conceptual response to the ills of the inner cities and the sprawl of the megalopolis: the "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" or, as it became known, EPCOT.
This beautifully written, instantly engrossing volume focuses on the original concept of EPCOT, which was conceived by Disney as an experimental community of about 20,000 people on the Disney World property in central Florida.
With its radial plan, 50-acre town center enclosed by a dome, themed international shopping area, greenbelt, high-density apartments, satellite communities, monorail and underground roads, the original EPCOT plan is reminiscent of post-war Stockholm and the British New Towns, as well as today's transit-oriented development theory.
www.waltopia.com /body.html   (274 words)

  
 Jason's The Land - Walt Disney on EPCOT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the creative centers of American industry.
And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of America free enterprise.
an experimental prototype community that will always be in a state of becoming.
www.csis.gvsu.edu /~willbraj/epcotjason/walt_disney_on_epcot.html   (509 words)

  
 Walt Disney: Long Biography
EPCOT Center opened October 1, 1982, and on May 1, 1989, the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park opened.
Walt Disney conceived the new school as a place where all the performing and creative arts would be taught under one roof in a "community of the arts" as a completely new approach to professional arts training.
Through his work he brought joy, happiness, and a universal means of communication to the people of every nation.
www.justdisney.com /walt_disney/biography/long_bio02.html   (531 words)

  
 *Illuminated  Community: the Epcot fanlisting*     v. the big golf ball*    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Epcot was the second park opened in Walt Disney World, opening its doors in 1982.
It was originally EPCOT, which stood for "Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow." Eventually, it became known simply as Epcot.
I chose the name "Illuminated Community" because that's exactly what it is: a community of people from different ages and different cultures in a place that's positively lit up.
studioaf.com /epcot/about.html   (264 words)

  
 Prototype - Experimental Prototype Community Of   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Specifically, EPCOT Center, the long awaited "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" that Walt Disney had promised the state in the early sixties, was finally opening.
Walt wanted to build an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, that is, a working city showcasing future technology.
Epcot Epcot was to be Walt Disney's dream of Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow.
prototype.profitfornow.net /experimentalprototypecommunityof   (275 words)

  
 EPCOT
What was lacking was a public focus for new ideas and concepts,a "center" for the communication of new possibilities for the future--directly to the public.
To answer this need,we are developing EPCOT Center: a permanent World's Fair of imagination,discovery,aducation and exploration that combines the Disney entertainment and communications skills with the knowledge and predictions for the future of authorities from the industry,the academic world,and the professions.
EPCOT Center is a permanent World's Fair of imagination,discovery,education,and exploration built with the help of leading American and international industries and with the cooperation of a number of goverments.
netdial.caribe.net /~cordero7/epcot.html   (491 words)

  
 Planning the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow Community of Tomorrow
I'd love to be part of building up a school of tomorrow… This might become a pilot operation for the teaching age—to go out across the country and across the world.
EPCOT will be an experimental prototype community of tomorrow that will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry.
He also mentioned (a little-known fact) that he was forming a plan for another prototype city in his mind, which would be a laboratory for administering cities.
www.mouseplanet.com /mark/mg040324.htm   (1799 words)

  
 Disneyland Monsanto House
In communications, push-buttons replace the telephone dial; screens permit the user to see the person at the other end of the line or callers at the front door.
"EPCOT," is an acronym for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise." "I don't believe there's a challenge anywhere in the world that's more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities.
spyhunter007.com /disneyland_monsanto_house.htm   (3812 words)

  
 WDW in Postcards Chap. 5. EPCOT CENTER p.1: If we can dream it ...
Origins of E.P.C.O.T. The last few years of Walts' life one of his biggest interests appears to have been American cities, what their problems were and what solutions could be found.
Although a "city of Tomorrow" wasn't built, it can be argued that many of those same goals were still pursued; in the way the resort itself is operated, the town of Celebration, and of course in the building of EPCOT CENTER.
Even the original name EPCOT Center showed that was the intent, they chose the term "center" in part to suggest that this was to show off the ideas of a potentially wider EPCOT.
www.bigbrian-nc.com /wdw-pc27.htm   (919 words)

  
 Epcot Tickets Disney Epcot Center Ticket Food and Wine Festival
The name Epcot is derived from the acronym EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney.
Walt Disney's original vision of EPCOT CENTER was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a testbed for city planning and organization.
Nearby are Mouse Gear, Epcot's largest store offering a wealth of Disney related merchandise; Ice Station Cool, an igloo which offers guests a chance to taste various Coca-Cola beverages from around the world; the Fountain View Espresso and Bakery, a coffeeshop; and the Electric Umbrella, Future World's main counter-service restaurant with typical theme-park-style fast food.
www.floridabrasil.com /epcot-tickets.html   (1818 words)

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