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  • Urbanism
  • 15 Jun 2026
  • 7 min

Tall Stories 513: Finding paradise in the real Shangri-La

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  • The Urbanist
  • Urbanism
  • 7 min

Tom Webb takes us to the Chinese city named after the fictional 1933 literary paradise of Shangri-La to sort fact from fiction.

Host
  • Andrew Tuck
Contributor
  • Tom Webb
Producer
  • David Stevens

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