WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Roadtown cover

Roadtown

Chapter 1: ROADTOWN
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

The author outlines a radical urban plan built as long linear cities aligned with rail arteries, combining stacked electrified train lines beneath two stories of continuous housing and workspaces, roof promenades, and gardens. He details technical features such as poured-concrete dwellings, smokeless high-speed transit, integrated parcel and telecommunication services, and mechanized domestic labor, and argues these will eliminate slums, reduce costs, improve health, and simplify distribution by cutting out middlemen. The book blends technical description, economic argument, endorsements and a personal account of the inventor’s efforts, and concludes with a call to implement the design as a practical path to social and civic reform.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Roadtown

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: Roadtown

Author: Edgar Chambless

Release date: February 25, 2019 [eBook #58964]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images
generously made available by The Internet Archive/American
Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROADTOWN ***

ROADTOWN