ABSTRACT

Based on the landscape designs at the Burbank studio campus, Disney's Holmby Hills residence, and the topiary, islands, and mock jungles of Disneyland, it is a safe assumption that landscaping would have been a key component in Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT). The Progress City narration states that landscaping was used to make industrial areas more like parks. The evolution of the role landscaping has played in community planning is reflected in The Urban Land Institute's 1968 Community Builders Handbook. When Disney was ready to prepare a landscaping plan for EPCOT, he would have turned to Morgan Bill' Evans. On Evans Road, just north of Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades' Rustic Canyon, the Evans family owned 22 acres and used their property to test new plant material. While working in Florida, Evans had frequent contact with EPCOT planner Marvin Davis, based in Glendale, California.