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The Central Importance of the Center—The Hub and Sleeping Beauty Castle
Disney was very insistent on the idea of the hub.
Karey Pohn
7 min read
Main Street USA
Main Street USA is “one of the most successfully designed streetscapes in human history” and has exerted enormous impact (Francaviglia, 1981
Karey Pohn
6 min read
Neptunian Playground
Disneyland has been called heart-shaped (Marling, 1997).
Karey Pohn
6 min read
Archetypal Nature and Cartographic Correspondences
As Disney’s entertainments are geared for a mass audience, they have to work with universal concepts.
Karey Pohn
3 min read
More Playful Visions-- Nye and I
Nye (1981) distinguished eight different ways of looking at amusement parks
Karey Pohn
3 min read
Many Maps, Many Meanings or Many Meanings of the Map
Bukatman (1991) associates Disneyland’s structure with the psychologists’ topology of the brain
Karey Pohn
3 min read
Overviews of the Overall Structure
Disneyland is its own world: a supreme example of hermeneutics, where the work not only opens up a world
Karey Pohn
5 min read
Going for Baroque?
Imagine that you are on the game show Jeopardy and the "Final Jeopardy" category is "Art and Architecture." It is a tight race and the only
Karey Pohn
2 min read
Overview and Orientation of Disneyland
When you arrive at Disneyland, you get a map of Disneyland that points out the various attractions that can be found in each of the differen
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3 min read
Flashback to Fabulous Fifties
As the 1950s began, America had just been through two World Wars, Prohibition and the Great Depression.
Karey Pohn
18 min read
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