The Limits to the Imagineered City: Sociospatial Polarization in Orlando
研究了后工业城市发展中的私有化和想象化趋势，以奥兰多为例，揭示了迪士尼式开发导致的社会空间隔离与极化，指出这种发展模式的社会极限。
Abstract: Postindustrial city development has become increasingly privatized, in addition to being based more and more on “imagineering” place for sale to footloose producers and consumers. As a result, cities have taken on many of the characteristics generally associated with theme parks. Themed built environments envelop highly selective communities essentially isolated from others, both socially and spatially. I argue that these sociospatial results of Disneyesque urban development do not bode well for urban social relations. I substantiate this claim by documenting the evolution of sociospatial isolation and polarization in Orlando, Florida, which has grown quite rapidly since the arrival of Disney World in the early 1970s. This “other” Orlando is proving to be ever more difficult to imagineer away and, indeed, represents the social limits to Disneyesque development.