What if your landlord was also your boss, mayor, bartender, and moral hall monitor?
This week, Andrew Heaton talks with Brian Brushwood about the strange history of company towns—from industrial utopias to corporate feudalism—and the thin line between benevolent planning and creepy social engineering.
They venture into Walt Disney’s original vision for EPCOT: not a theme park, but a living futuristic city under a climate-controlled dome, where corporations tested new technologies on actual residents.
Was Disney imagining a dazzling city of tomorrow, or accidentally inventing a family-friendly version of Brave New World?
