Beautiful places don’t have to be limited to expensive theme parks or giant indoor buildings, they can just be places.

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Intro music by Josh Augustin: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dYrn...

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➜ References & Further Reading:
America's Suburban Experiment
https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside...

Is Disneyland the great American artwork?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...

EPCOT: Walt Disney's New Urbanist City
https://www.archdaily.com/987892/epco...

EPCOT: Walt Disney's failed city of tomorrow
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/sto...

What Disney can teach us about urban planning
https://www.zdnet.com/article/qawhat...

Walt Disney’s radical vision for a new kind of city
https://theconversation.com/waltdisn...

Mall Maker
https://archive.org/details/mallmaker...

Malls Weren't Supposed to be Like This
   • Malls Weren't Supposed to be Like This  

Why the inventor of the shopping mall denounced his dream
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddes...

Southdale Center: America's first shopping mall
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...

Victor Gruen Wanted to Make Our Suburbs More Urban. Instead, He Invented the Mall
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

The rise and fall of the American mall
https://www.businessinsider.com/ther...

What Is Traditional Development?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2...

➜ Timestamps:
0:00 The suburban experiment
1:21 Disneyfication
2:20 Intro
2:30 Walt Disney's city of tomorrow
4:34 The invention of shopping malls
7:31 The death of American malls
9:26 Why traditional development is better
11:26 The Disneyfication of American Cities
12:49 Designing beautiful places

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