Beautiful places don’t have to be limited to expensive theme parks or giant indoor buildings, they can just be places.

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Intro music by Josh Augustin: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2dYrni0Ip1lY2KYPzwCCVW?si=Fl4FhuxHR_yVNrb10uDqjg&nd=1

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➜ References & Further Reading:
America's Suburban Experiment
https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/14/americas-suburban-experiment

Is Disneyland the great American artwork?
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210817-is-disneyland-an-art-masterpiece-or-corporate-monstrosity

EPCOT: Walt Disney's New Urbanist City
https://www.archdaily.com/987892/epcot-walt-disneys-new-urbanist-city

EPCOT: Walt Disney's failed city of tomorrow
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/10/01/a-brief-history-of-the-epcot-center-and-what-it-was-meant-to-be?utm_medium=website&utm_source=archdaily.com

What Disney can teach us about urban planning
https://www.zdnet.com/article/qa-what-disney-can-teach-us-about-urban-planning/

Walt Disney’s radical vision for a new kind of city
https://theconversation.com/walt-disneys-radical-vision-for-a-new-kind-of-city-167022

Mall Maker
https://archive.org/details/mallmakervictorg00hard/mode/2up

Malls Weren't Supposed to be Like This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiP1sLGaIdo

Why the inventor of the shopping mall denounced his dream
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/24/bastard-developments-inventor-world-first-shopping-mall-denounced

Southdale Center: America's first shopping mall
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/06/southdale-center-america-first-shopping-mall-history-cities-50-buildings

Victor Gruen Wanted to Make Our Suburbs More Urban. Instead, He Invented the Mall
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-18/victor-gruen-wanted-to-make-our-suburbs-more-urban-instead-he-invented-the-mall

The rise and fall of the American mall
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-mall-2020-7?op=1

What Is Traditional Development?
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/6/14/traditional-development

➜ Timestamps:
0:00 The suburban experiment
1:21 Disneyfication
2:20 Intro
2:30 Walt Disney's city of tomorrow
4:34 The invention of shopping malls
7:31 The death of American malls
9:26 Why traditional development is better
11:26 The Disneyfication of American Cities
12:49 Designing beautiful places

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