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Oct 2019

54m 47s

Roadtown, by Edgar Chambless, Reading 1

About this episode

Tonight we get dreamy with the utopian urban planning vision of Edgar Chambless in Roadtown. A city a thousand miles long, built in a straight line? Why, it's the perfect solution for stress!

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