Comments on: A Lego Urban Design Primer

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Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:51:21 +0000

[...] Ivenson‘s use of Lego for getting feedback and ideas on Edmonton’s transit system (see A Lego Urban Design Primer, Transportation Choices: A Video Using Lego, Edmonton Transportation Plan in [...]

By: Edmonton Transportation Plan in Lego — Don Iveson

Edmonton Transportation Plan in Lego — Don Iveson — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 21:52:49 +0000

[...] Examiner last month but am just now finally getting around to posting it here. It follows up from a previous post on Lego urban design from last year and a video on transportation choice illustrated with Lego that we did during the [...]

By: don

don — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:15:46 +0000

I was 30 when I wrote this particular post, and am 31 now.

By: liam

liam — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:18:43 +0000

how old is don?

By: Transportation Choices: A Video Using Lego — Don Iveson

Transportation Choices: A Video Using Lego — Don Iveson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:34 +0000

[...] video builds on a blog post from last year where I used Lego to illustrate some principles of urban design. I’ve since turned that into a popular [...]

By: Steve Trueman

Steve Trueman — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:24:49 +0000

Can I vote for you, even if you’re not in my Ritchie district? I love your vision… Keep up the great work!!

By: lego shopper

lego shopper — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:32:54 +0000

Sara:

The plain Lego buckets are making a big comeback – there are lots at Toys R Us (in boxes and tubs) and Zellers (just tubs, though they’re currently having a Buy One Get One 1/2 off, so it’s a good time to stock up for birthday parties!).

By: sara

sara — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:03:41 +0000

Your lovely wife just sent me over here from my posting about a Playmobil cargo bike mail carrier. Love this. Actually when we were looking for toys we asked about a big bucket of ‘plain’ Lego, no set involved, but somehow we stumped the toy store manager. So sending this to my urban planning friends.

By: Paz

Paz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:57:29 +0000

This is spectacular!

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:32:15 +0000

I too have been recently looking at the Lego City sets. Many of the sets are simple, yet functional and it’s really sad that many North American municipalities, including Edmonton, can’t get it right in many cases.

Nevertheless, teaching children about things like urban planning/design using tools like Lego can be crucial for our municipalities once the younger generations get older. I for sure will be teaching my future children all about urban design and planning; maybe they will want to be a planner like myself. :)

As a side note, the Lego Architecture series has recently been released with some neat buildings such as the Sears Tower and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.