Town-Building Is No Mickey Mouse Operation

By MICHAEL POLLAN | Photographs By TREVOR RAY HART 
 
 
 
 

'Will Celebration always look so newly minted? That's a real question,' the architect Robert A.M. Stern, who is also a Disney board member, acknowledged. But he added, 'You know it's a really sad commentary that for something to look "real" it has to look run down.' 

 
 
 

 

Neotraditional Designs for Living (above, from left): The post office, town hall, and school.

 A Sort-of-Diversity: Million-dollar homes (left) on the golf course were built in proximity to modest cottages.

 Controlled Surprise: Water jets in a downtown fountain (below) go off randomly. 

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Sunday, December 14, 1997 
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