{"id":745,"date":"2005-02-10T23:20:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T04:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2005-02-10T23:20:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T04:20:04","slug":"celebrating-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witold Rybcynski, the writer and scholar of architecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2113107\/\">really likes Celebration<\/a>,  the Disney-built planned town in Florida that raked in controversy for its venture into privatized civic life.<br \/>\nRybcynski visit and admires the comforting, human-scale houses, streets and sidewalks&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.slate.msn.com\/media\/1\/123125\/2079215\/2112767\/2113105\/2113106\/03_Street.jpg\" height=\"280\" width=\"425\"><br \/>\nand the thoughtfully laid out parks<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.slate.msn.com\/media\/1\/123125\/2079215\/2112767\/2113105\/2113106\/04_Park.jpg\" height=\"280\" width=\"425\"><br \/>\nand considers it the honest heir to classic garden suburb development in the early 1900s.<br \/>\nThe worry about Disney&#8217;s Celebration wasn&#8217;t about the buildings and streets (which seem genuinely humane), but about the civic structure &#8212; Disney&#8217;s attempt to build resort-level quality control over the road, school, and social hall fabric of life.<br \/>\nMy question about Celebration, a decade later, is how and whether it is evolving from a housing development into a town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witold Rybcynski, the writer and scholar of architecture, really likes Celebration, the Disney-built planned town in Florida that raked in controversy for its venture into privatized civic life. Rybcynski visit and admires the comforting, human-scale houses, streets and sidewalks&#8230; and the thoughtfully laid out parks and considers it the honest heir to classic garden suburb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celebrating Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-c1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}