Celebration, FL

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MacLear served as one of the first dozen team members to lead the strategic planning and partnerships for Disney's new town, Celebration outside of Orlando Florida.  Based on Walt Disney's original inspiration for the Experimental Prototype Community for Tomorrow (EPCOT), Celebration was early to integrate a fiber optic connection between the health center, homes, school and all civic buildings.  With a vision to create a town where new urbanism concepts could facilitate community and technology integration could foster innovation - we forged partnerships with AT&T and Knight Ridder, GE and C.Everett Koop, Stetson University and Howard Gardner.  Town design was lead by Robert A.M. Stern and Jacque Robertson and included buildings by Philip Johnson, Cesar Pelli, Michael Graves, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown.