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Cities in Motion: Toys and Transport

Publication, November 2000

Using small scale to show vast structures, Cities in Motion traces the child’s endless fascination with trains and bridges, tracks and trams, stations and garages, and explores the relationship of transportation to the urban infrastructure.

Part of a series that includes Buildings in Boxes: Architectural Toys from the CCA, Toys that Teach, Potential Architecture: Construction Toys from the CCA Collection, Toys and the Modernist Tradition, Dream Houses, Toy Homes and Toy Town.

Texts by Richard Ingersoll
Book design by Bruce Mau Design, with Bruce Mau and Jason Halter

Bilingual English-French edition
Softcover, 64 pages

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Toys and Transport

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