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Pleasantville: 'A Perfect, Peaceful Place'

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
14 April 2002 - 11:00am

Richard Roman designs three to four perfect towns every year.

"Mr. Roman, who studied engineering, is not an architect, an urban planner or a developer, but he designs and creates three to four towns, with landscapes, every year...He also knows, conceptually, what makes a town viable." Nostalgia for the American landscape and towns of the 1950s lives on in the world of toy-trains and model railroading.

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Source: The New York Times, April 12, 2002
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