Cause to celebrate: will Disney's Celebration, its new planned community near Orlando, help rekindle the idea of neighborhood?

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Walt Disney designed its Celebration planned community with the hope of reintroducing new urbanism design for cities. The community will encourage walking instead of driving and buildings will be a mixture of commercial and different designs for homes. Such design can reduce urban sprawl.

Social aspects, Planning, Walt Disney Co., Urban renewal, Cities and towns, DIS, Planned communities

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The search for the new hometown

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Numerous architects, community planners, and real estate developers throughout the US are working to create suburban neighborhoods similar to cozy communities of the past. Details of specific designers and towns are given.

Innovations, Cover Story, Suburban life

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Maestro Mendini: for over 30 years, the Italian designer has been a maverick; but today Milan's guru is a global tastemaker

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Mendini's emotion-based designs are becoming increasingly popular in the US and around the world. The iconoclastic designer, often called 'the maestro of kitsch,' is influencing a new generation of designers and artists.

Biography, Architects, Works, Designers, Mendini, Alessandro

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