Science meets Mickey Mouse
An army of Walt Disney designers is turning a desolate piece of Florida scrubland into what it hopes will be a paean to the latest technical innovations
Author: Peter Marsh, New Scientist, #92.1297, 1982-03-18,pp. 728-730,EN
Work on one of the US's biggest construction jobs should come to an end later this year when the first visitors stream into Walt Disney Production's latest venture — a £400 million "fun park", in the middle of Florida. At 220 hectares, the EPCOT Center is slightly smaller than London's Hyde Park. But whereas the medieval monks who planned the latter were content to leave their recreation area as little more than grass and trees, Disney's army of designers aims to make its venture a monument to the latest advances in science and technology. […]