Atlanta, For Immediate Release: The Walt Disney Company’s far-ranging theme parks rate as the world’s “top family entertainment projects,” says noted futurist McKinley Conway in his new book, Global Super Projects: Mega Ventures That Are Shaping Our Future.

Disney’s landmark achievement, however, is only one of a host of mega-endeavors in which Conway has selected the most significant projects in recent history. The prolific author of more than two dozen books has also chosen the top projects in 19 other important categories, ranging from environmental and conservation undertakings, to new airports, highways and other infrastructure elements. (To access all of Conway’s selections, as well as the Conway Global Super Projects Registry, look for the online version of the entire book that will be available by Jan. 16, 2006, at www.sitenet.com/books/superprojects. To go directly to the Conway Global Super Projects Registry, go to www.sitenet.com/books/superprojects/registry.)

Conway, a pioneer in the economic development field, made his selections from what he calls “Super Projects, the billion-dollar babies that are changing the face of world development.” A Super Project, he explains, “represents a cost of US$1 billion or more and/or a represents a technological breakthrough of worldwide significance.” Conway’s Atlanta-based research firm, Conway Data Inc., maintains a global Super Project database that now includes some 2,000 ventures.

Just how did Conway, who has studied major global projects for decades and brought together leading Super Project experts in a series of historic worldwide conferences, choose the crème de la crème? The winners, he explains, “were those deemed to be most significant in improving the quality of life for large numbers of the world’s citizens.”

Here, for example, is how the author explained his choice for the world’s top family entertainment projects:

“The Disney theme parks are in a class by themselves. The first Disneyland in California was a breakthrough project. The team followed with Disney World in Florida and it, too, was a smashing success. Observers were astonished to note that thousands of visitors came from other continents. The economic impact was felt over a wide area. Thus emboldened, investors launched projects in Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and have plans for other places yet to be named.”