EPCOT, Walt Disney's failed plan to create the city of tomorrow in the sixties. In the mid-sixties, Walt Disney tried to make his dream of creating the city of tomorrow a reality by using state-of-the-art technology of the time. It was called the EPCOT, Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

Yes, EPCOT was originally designed as a functional utopian city, not a theme park. Walt Disney’s vision for the "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" was a living laboratory for urban planning and American industry. In his 1966 plans, EPCOT was to be a radial city housing 20,000 residents who would live and work in a community that "never ceased to be a blueprint of the future." It featured a high-density urban center with a 30-story hotel, surrounded by climate-controlled pedestrian zones, while all automobile traffic was diverted into underground tunnels. Residents would move via silent, electric Monorails and PeopleMovers. After Walt’s death in 1966, the Disney company shifted away from the "living city" concept, fearing the legal and logistical nightmare of managing a municipal government. Consequently, when it opened in 1982, it had been reimagined as a "World’s Fair" style theme park, though it retained many of the original architectural themes and transportation concepts.