TARDO QUATTROCENTO

В искусстве:

Sugar City, South Dakota, 1990 by Remo Campopiano



Bird City, 1986 by Remo Campopiano

Attleboro Chess Set by Remo Campopiano



В литературе:
Q: In the book, there is quite a bit of descriptive detail of the streets, the buildings, and the people of this imaginary city of Entralla—and we understand that you too have constructed a model of the city. Was building Entralla a compulsive effort on your part—in keeping with the model-building activities of Alva and Irva? Did you construct this model in advance of writing the book, or after?
A: Building the miniature city that I was writing about was essential to me, firstly so that I could really understand what it looked like, and secondly because it is what the protagonists of the novel do, and so I felt if I were really to understand them and their obsession I'd have to do the same. I spent many weeks constructing miniature streets and buildings, rummaging through many architectural books and guidebooks, and stealing building designs from different actual cities to construct my made-up one. I was amazed at how delicate a process it was, how painfully slow, and at how much patience it required. And how vulnerable the plasticine was, how easy to dent, and how quickly it grew dusty.

It was a great adventure for me building the city. I started building it (after I'd already made many maps) when I'd completed a few drafts of the novel, but the process of making the city changed the novel. I suddenly began to consider many new things. I could see the city with much more clarity and certain new possibilities for events began to occur to me. I began to wonder how it would be to be a city planner, and what responsibility there is to the people who would have to live with, and in, the decisions you make. Building the city, playing God, was wonderful but certainly I shall never do it again. I remember having a nightmare that somehow a mouse had gotten into my miniature city and was trampling around the plasticine streets, carving destruction as it went; I woke up terrified.
(Interview with Edward Carey)

В жизни:

A miniature city is used to instruct military police in Germany on the situations likely to arise in various parts of a city, September 1946. After the war, Western forces were geared toward support and civil control.



Safety City is a mobile traffic safety program for school children that uses an actual miniature city with buildings simulating a typical traffic environment, complete with streets, sidewalks, traffic lights, traffic signs, and crosswalks to teach children about traffic safety through hands-on experience. To give the program a realistic traffic environment, participants maneuver through the miniature city setting on little pedal cars, bicycles and as pedestrians.