panmesa: Hat tip via empidgeon: All that’s needed for James Rojas’ makeover of downtown Long Beach is imagination. Rojas is an urban planner who has constructed an 80-square-foot scale model of the city that residents and business owners can tinker with to illustrate their own vision of Long Beach’s future. … “It’s a great exhibit,” said Alan Huyhn, a private planning consultant from Culver City who has seen the Long Beach model. “Urban planning can be intimidating. People don’t always go to city planning workshops because they think they won’t understand the process or it will be boring.” Huyhn said Rojas’ use of abstract items such as hair rollers, Chinese checkers pieces and glued-together blocks of wood to simulate buildings helps adults be more creative than they might be if more realistic scale-model pieces were used.” - Los Angeles Times

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Hat tip via empidgeon:

All that’s needed for James Rojas’ makeover of downtown Long Beach is imagination.

Rojas is an urban planner who has constructed an 80-square-foot scale model of the city that residents and business owners can tinker with to illustrate their own vision of Long Beach’s future.

… “It’s a great exhibit,” said Alan Huyhn, a private planning consultant from Culver City who has seen the Long Beach model. “Urban planning can be intimidating. People don’t always go to city planning workshops because they think they won’t understand the process or it will be boring.”

Huyhn said Rojas’ use of abstract items such as hair rollers, Chinese checkers pieces and glued-together blocks of wood to simulate buildings helps adults be more creative than they might be if more realistic scale-model pieces were used.” - Los Angeles Times

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