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Karey Pohn
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New Orleans Square
New Orleans Square sits between Adventureland and Frontierland, and as Marin (1984) maintains mediates between the two. Marling (1997),
Karey Pohn
4 min read
Fantasyland
Fantasyland was Walt’s favorite land when the park opened (Thomas, 1976). The rides in Fantasyland are based on the children’s classic...
Karey Pohn
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New Nanny Needed
“A British Nanny” –to the Tune of “The Life I Lead” George then decides to take matters into his own hands in hiring the next nanny. He...
Karey Pohn
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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
6 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
3 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
5 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
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