Pleasantville: 'A Perfect, Peaceful Place'

Richard Roman designs three to four perfect towns every year.

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April 14, 2002, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"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.

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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