ABSTRACT
Florida Film writer Marty Sklar outlined the key elements relating to architecture and construction in EPCOT. It encourages American industry to test and demonstrate new ideas, materials and systems emerging now and in the future. EPCOT's high-density apartments encircle the urban core in a manner reminiscent of the Stockholm, Sweden satellite town designs. The Disney's set up shop in Hollywood in 1923 and thereafter, their organization and its principals built residences, two motion picture studios, the world's first theme park, and four World's Fair pavilions. Walt Disney World's Contemporary and Polynesian resorts were constructed in conjunction with US Steel Realty Corporation and reflect several elements of the EPCOT philosophy. Walt Disney Productions had years of experience communicating graphically, and the coordinated signage within the berm would stand in stark contrast to Anaheim's neon jungle called Harbor Boulevard outside the park. Disney attempted to create a human-scaled and reassuring environment at the theme park.
