A Man Builds, and Rebuilds, an Ideal City in LEGO

Scott Crawford has a vision for Jackson, Mississippi. He sees a pedestrian-friendly city with lots of bike lanes and solar panels on city hall, where residents take good care of their homes and pick up trash in the streets. This isn’t just a dream he has. Crawford has built this city with his own two hands. In LEGO. Some 20,000 pieces of it.

Crawford has been working on the model city for three years now. When he exhibited it last December at the Arts Center of Mississippi, it was huge – an L-shaped metropolis that stretched nearly 20 feet in each direction. He has spent countless hours crafting the meticulously detailed buildings and streets of this idealized Jackson.