Beneath the Spaceship Earth geodesic sphere and the display of world cultures that symbolize Disney World’s EPCOT lies the buried vision for a utopian city. The original EPCOT - a community built around innovation - was one of Walt Disney’s last visionary projects. Bothered by haphazard urban sprawl, Disney had bold ideas for an urban fabric that would drive progress in the USA. The “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow” was Walt Disney’s antidote to the decay of American cities.
On October 26, 1966 - a period well into the United States’ modernist movement - Walt Disney released a film that narrated his plans for a futuristic prototype city. EPCOT was his dream for a technologically-forward and green society in the USA. The experiment would fuse Disney's revolutionary visions in urban planning, re-examining how American cities could develop in a controlled manner. Disney strongly believed that the problems of cities were the most critical issues facing society.
