<P> To all who come to this place of joy, hope and friendship, welcome . </P> <P> Epcot Center is inspired by Walt Disney's creative genius . Here, human achievements are celebrated through imagination, the wonders of enterprise, and concepts of a future that promises new and exciting benefits for all . </P> <P> The park's name, EPCOT, is an acronym for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, a utopian city of the future planned by Walt Disney, often interchanging "city" and "community ." In Walt Disney's words: "EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry . It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed but will always be introducing and testing, and demonstrating new materials and new systems . And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world of the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise ." His original vision was for a model community which would have been home to twenty thousand residents and a test bed for city planning as well as organization . It was to have been built in the shape of a circle with businesses and commercial areas at its center with community buildings, schools, and recreational complexes around it while residential neighborhoods would line the perimeter . This radial plan concept is strongly influenced by British planner Ebenezer Howard and his Garden Cities of To - morrow . Transportation would have been provided by monorails and PeopleMovers (like that in Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland). Automobile traffic would be kept underground, leaving pedestrians safe above ground . The original model of EPCOT can still be seen by passengers riding the Tomorrowland Transit Authority attraction in the Magic Kingdom park; when the PeopleMover enters the showhouse for Stitch's Great Escape!, the remaining portion of the model is visible on the left (when facing forward) behind glass . Walt Disney was not able to obtain funding and permission to start work on his Florida property until he agreed to first build Magic Kingdom . He died nearly five years before Magic Kingdom opened . </P> <P> After Disney's death, Walt Disney Productions decided that it did not want to be in the business of running a city without Walt's guidance . The model community of Celebration, Florida has been mentioned as a realization of Disney's original vision, but Celebration is based on concepts of new urbanism which is radically different from Disney's modernist and futurist visions . However, the idea of EPCOT was instrumental in prompting the state of Florida to create the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) and the cities of Bay Lake and Reedy Creek (now Lake Buena Vista), a legislative mechanism allowing Disney to exercise governmental powers over Walt Disney World . Control over the RCID is vested in the landowners of the district, and the promise of an actual city in the district would have meant that the powers of the RCID would have been distributed among the landowners in EPCOT . Because the idea of EPCOT was never implemented, Disney remained almost the sole landowner in the district allowing it to maintain control of the RCID and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista; Disney further cemented this control by deannexing Celebration from the RCID . </P>

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