Val d'Europe

It was built as part of a public–private partnership between The Walt Disney Company and the French state, based on a convention signed in 1987.

Five of them — Bailly-Romainvilliers, Chessy, Coupvray, Magny-le-Hongre, and Serris — form the historical territory of sector IV.

[1] These communes, as well as four neighbouring ones, are grouped into an urban community, called Val d'Europe Agglomeration (VEA).

The building work started in 1987, after Jacques Chirac (then French prime minister) and Disney signed the contract.

Disney had previously created a New Urbanist city in Florida, known as Celebration, also designed by Cooper, Robertson & Partners.