Even Chinese travelers are tired of all the 500-room business hotels, he has found, preferring Le Sun Chine's more intimate scale.

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"Once" may earn the same special status by doing something similar, albeit on a more intimate scale -- using pop-rock songs to shape its characters' ecstatic feelings.

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And now, 50 years later, if you look at a movement called the new urbanists, for example, who are trying to re-create that more intimate scale of living, in many ways it's extrapolating what Disney built, which was a stylized version of a small town, which existed to some degree but never to the extent that our memories believe it.

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