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Also Disney is not designed for public use. It’s built to extract as much money out of you without leaving their property.
The strip is designed for that as well
Vegas’ strip is like 1/10 the size of Disney World and had zero central planning, commercial or civil. The individual properties are designed the way you’re thinking but that’s a footnote by comparison.
Disney world is 40+ square miles of engineered profit-extraction entirely managed by a single proprietor. It’s a very hefty case study in commercial and communal design.
And yet people enjoy it.
Maybe we should build our city centers the same way then.