Disney and the Postmodern City: Joey Ritonia

Class Review 25/9---The Postmodern City The Postmodern city, a concept which began on the 17th July 1955 due to Disney opening its first of many theme parks in Anaheim, CA, Disneyland. The theme park itself was a fantasy city, it had street signs, food shops, clothing shops, just like a real city except all of it was Disney themed. The reason the ‘Postmodern City’ is given that name is due to theme parks, i.e. Disneyland, started to affect the real world and tourism had spikes after the park opened. Cities changed after the opening of Disneyland, they took things from the theme park and used them in everyday life. Disneyland essentially has a functioning city inside its walls. Within Disneyland they have a city council; they also have teams/people for drilling, floods, pest control, roadways, sewage systems, and social control. The bottom line of this lecture is from Disneyland we have developed a postmodern city and with a postmodern city you get postmodern citizens, we as a society are celebrating the superficiality of theme parks by using there ideas in our cities.