Epcot
Permanent world's fair park built around a giant geodesic sphere, born of an unbuilt future city.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Epcot in Orlando opens with Walt Disney sketching plans from a hospital bed in December 1966: not a theme park but a real city for twenty thousand residents, with no slums, no landlords and no elections. He died before a single foundation was poured, and the guide follows how his company's board reconsidered turning that vision into an actual functioning city with real citizens. A good listen while walking from the entrance toward the plaza ahead.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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