Models

The Town That Lives Online Only

Elgin Park is a small city that doesn't exist. But online, through a series of photographs created from tiny models in the house of one Massachusetts man, the time-frozen industrial town of the mid-'60s has come to life.

15 March 2010 - 9:00am

The New York Times

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Jeffrey Barg

Ferris Bueller: My Kind of City Planner

Tue, 01/05/2010 - 09:49

“Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter: -isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism; he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: ‘I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.’ A good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off of people.”

—Ferris Bueller

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Creating Virtual City Tours Through 'Photo Tourism'

By combing through images on Flickr, a team of researchers has created a 3-D model of the city of Rome constructed from 150,000 tourist snapshots.

19 September 2009 - 7:00am

Gizmag

Building Communities With Legos and Plastic Bottles

GOOD Magazine follows planner James Rojas as he engages a community in the act of planning in his own particular fashion, using everyday objects and building blocks.

17 August 2009 - 12:00pm

GOOD Magazine