In fact, much of downtown was designed with the safety of children playing after school in mind. It allows them to interact, to build relationships, rather than sit at home in front of a television. It lets kids be kids, they way they used to be. Mega-stores, such as Disney's own The Disney Company store, are not allowed downtown. In Celebration, old-fashioned community is fostered through these visual signs in the environment.
Porches signify interaction, which in turn signifies trust.
Unlike the dangers of the urban jungle, children can ride their bikes unaccompanied through Celebration with no thought of harm because the reality of violence in America is not recognized. He posits that we have reached the stage in which the image no longer bears any resemblance to and is no representation of reality. Once upon a time images were thought to reflect the basic reality of that which they were representing, or serve as the exchange for that meaning. Simulation however is the negation of this equation for we now know that the image or sign can never possess the value of the real. Today an image is merely an image of an image, or simulacra.