Cosmic Play

Disney was very insistent on the idea of the hub.

Main Street USA is “one of the most successfully designed streetscapes in human history” and has exerted enormous impact (Francaviglia, 1981

Disneyland has been called heart-shaped (Marling, 1997).

As Disney’s entertainments are geared for a mass audience, they have to work with universal concepts.

Nye (1981) distinguished eight different ways of looking at amusement parks

Bukatman (1991) associates Disneyland’s structure with the psychologists’ topology of the brain

Disneyland is its own world: a supreme example of hermeneutics, where the work not only opens up a world

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

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

As the 1950s began, America had just been through two World Wars, Prohibition and the Great Depression.