The town of Celebration, designed and built by the Disney Corporation near Orlando, Florida, is certainly the most prominent—and perhaps the most controversial—of the second generation of New Urbanism green-field projects. It followed the sole firstgeneration new town, Seaside, Florida, by about ten years. Celebration is the New Urbanist stepchild of Walt Disney’s original vision of EPCOT, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Presented in 1966, the drawings and the animated film showed a full-fledged city, organized as a radial system with Entries A–F 425 business and commerce at the center, higher density apartments around a greenbelt, and an outer ring of clean factories and low-density neighborhoods. Shelved at Disney’s death, the concept of the “Model City” was revived in the late 1980s under the direction chief operating officer Michael Eisner. The design of what became Celebration was protracted over many years because it involved the careful testing of every facet o...