if you consider Disney World as a fully integrated art-piece philosophically you will see the inevitable progression to places like Dubai and the direction NYC has been headed in for the past decade or so.

hiredgoons:

In a post industrial information economy, America doesn’t make things anymore we make ‘experiences.’

Walt Disney understood this before anyone else.

I repeat, the only honest work of art I could ever really make that would fully integrate every economic, social, political and infrastructure ramification in contemporary America would be to own and operate a McDonald’s franchise.