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Mono-themed and multi-themed

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Around the lake at Disney's Epcot

Some themed places are multi-themed. The different Disney Magic Kingdom fantasy areas and the Epcot national areas have no closed borders; sound and sight overlap, clashing and enticing you, as well as providing occasions for complexity and psychic distance.

Most themed places are mono-themed, as at Opryland, and at Frontierlands, Santa Claus towns, and medieval restaurants. Lower Manhattan might be considered a multi-themed area, but the individual themed places there such as Battery Park City, South Street Seaport, Chinatown, feel mono-themed when you are within them.

Mono-themed places are more numerous, and more problematic from a critical point of view, since they encourage immersion, whereas multi-themed places increase one's awareness of the theme fantasies as such.