Disneyfication

Disneyfication is a term of urban planning and architectural sociology. He stands for a new definition of city and society, in which the revival of old value systems plays a central role. The concept of the theme park will not only serve the wonderful, short-term, recovery auspicious exit from the real world, it promises now real world improvement. In almost cultic, the guiding principle of the company founder Walt Disney are being rediscovered as a new concept of society, the ideal that each of his destiny is his own blacksmith, driven by dreams that are realized by his willpower. Disneyfication is the symbol of the realization of the " American Dream ".

Another criticism of the process of Disneyfication of urban spaces such as Times Square for many reasons. On the one hand this is accompanied by a strong control of public space, from which everything Unwanted (about homelessness, prostitution, drug use) is displaced - a parallel to dictatorial societies. Secondly, an unreal world of illusion is created, in which social problems but also social pluralism does not take place (in terms of religion, ethnicity and lifestyles ) of the city and be forgotten, thus negating. There has been a reduction in the public and social space on the happy Christian- white nuclear family.