Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities’ Problems Are Our Biggest Problems
https://www.population.fyi/p/walt-disney-was-right-our-cities
Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities’ Problems Are Our Biggest Problems
https://www.population.fyi/p/walt-disney-was-right-our-cities
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This article, “Walt Disney Was Right; Our Cities’ Problems Are Our Biggest Problems,” offers a provocative look at the future of urban planning and governance. Cities as we know them are going downhill, despite us having better technology than ever. The article argues that the key to solving our most pressing urban issues is not in adopting new technology but in a long-term, quality-focused approach to city management – an idea that traces back to Walt Disney’s vision for EPCOT, the original “city of the future” so to speak
EPCOT helped destroy our cities by romanticizing this overly-individualistic, car-centric nightmare we now use.
And when he is released from cryogenic hibernation he can assist us in solving those problems.
PUDs are nothing new – its just they dont work for people reasons
So summarized, short term political wins are preventing long term measures that would build better cities.
Bold move to start a sentence, much less a headline, with “Walt Disney was right”.
Walt Disney died in 1966. The US population was much smaller and housing was more affordable. This article talks about modern problems, but I don’t think that Disney envisioned those problems or knew how to solve them. In 1966, people thought that welfare would solve all of our problems.
profiteering is the issue
you can’t manage a city well when those in power look at their role as a job to enrich themselves and friends.
the primary concern also about maximizing short term profits either for the self or some other entity.