Disneyland Paris: a permanent economic growth pole in the Francilian landscape.

Abstract

Disneyland Paris was located in the Francilian landscape to increase the capital accumulation of the Walt Disney Company. It has settled there permanently thanks, in part, to the convention signed by the Company with the French government who needed an economic growth pole in the Eastern part of the Paris Basin. Disney accepted the partnership and its constraints because it had ambitious real estate development plans. The French government, with its New Town policy was the only European country that could provide such a large acreage which it used to lever Disney's presence. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.