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Cities

The Ideal Communist City

Jesse Walker | 5.10.2005 7:18 PM

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Randal O'Toole visits the former East Germany to see how the Soviet version of smart growth worked out.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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