Disney World has more autonomy than any US city
And it built a much better one.

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n 1966, Walt Disney recorded a video revealing his plans for a futurist utopia—a privately built, master-planned, and fully autonomous city of the future. He called it an “experimental prototype community of tomorrow,” or EPCOT.
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