Epcot

Short for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. EPCOT presently is a theme park opened in 1981 within Walt Disney World. However, the original vision of EPCOT by Walt Disney was that of an actual model community which would be a laboratory for city planning and functioning. The idea of EPCOT helped prompt the state of Florida to create the Reedy Creek Improvement Distict which allowed the Walt Disney Company to exercise quasi-governmental powers over Walt Disney World.

Much of the motivation of EPCOT in creating an idea city has was implemented in the city of Celebration, Florida. However, Celebration, Florida and the original idea for EPCOT differ in that the vision of EPCOT was based in 1950's futurism with skyscrapers and prefabricated houses while Celebration, Florida is rooted in 1990's suburbanism.