Google Sightseeing has put together some interesting views of the Disney built Florida town of Celebration, in a post called The Town that Disney Built.
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Disney's Celebration was built (I asssume) as a post-post-modern critique of Baudrillard's theories of hyperreality (although I might be wrong).
Whether you think Celebration is a Truman Show lite experiment or a successful re-imagining of American small-town values the Street Views on show in the Google Sightseeing post provide a stark contrast to the images in Doug Rickard's A New American Picture.
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Rickard's collection of Google Maps Street View images presents a very different picture of American life. The collection presents an urban world of run-down infrastructure and deprivation.
Please submit your end of term papers - 'Street View and the Psychogeographer' before the end of December.
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