Here, a few lucky folks are already fulfilling that great childhood dream-to live Disneyland. But it plans to put a new, experimental city on one segment, and on another it has begun a small condominium community called Lake Buena Vista. WED hasn't quite decided what it will do with all that land. Disney World covers an area twice the size of Manhattan island, which means that Disney's old film men who staff WED are in the process of creating new town that will be bigger than the new cities of Columbia, Md., and Reston, Va., put together. Mickey Mouse has come a long way since then: The Disney organization is now engrossed in the development of Walt Disney World, a 27,000‐acre site in central Florida, and WED, as its official design and engineering arm, has entered the city planning business, on a bigger scale than almost any other firm in the United States. The result probably the most successful amusement park ever built anywhere.

Since the WED staff didn't know anything about how to design an amusement park, it never quite got around to giving Disneyland a roller coaster, a Ferris wheel or a standard carnival midway instead, WED started from scratch and created a park based largely on Disney characters and themes from his films. He had no architects or amusement‐park designers on his staff, and he had never much liked the idea of hiring outside consultants, so he put together design team himself, composed mostly of art directors from the Disney studios, and called the group WED, after his initials. WED began when Walt Disney decided in 1952 to build Disneyland in Southern California.

They are not part of a think tank, or a university, or foundation, or anything remotely like these their operation, which is called WED Enterprises, Inc., owned and fully controlled by the company that made Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney Productions. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.: There is a nondescript, two‐story building in Glendale, Calif., that houses 400 men who may have more influence on the shape America's cities will take than any planners, architects or urban designers could ever hope to.

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