Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“They wanted visitors specifically to forget the dehumanizing sprawl that was even then creeping out from Los Angeles. “In the cities we’re threatened … We don’t talk to people, we don’t believe everything we hear, we don’t look people in the eye … We don’t trust people. We find ourselves alone. If we keep pulling these blinds down and cutting ourselves off, we die a little bit,” explained John Hench, Disney’s top lieutenant and leader of the group Disney dubbed his Imagineers back in 1978. “Wal...t wanted to reassure people … There’s some nostalgia involved, of course, but nostalgia for what? There was never a main street like this one.MoreLess
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