{"id":1646,"date":"2012-09-25T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1646-urban-planning-with-3d-printing-in-louisville-kentucky.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:48:53","slug":"urban-planning-with-3d-printing-in-louisville-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/urban-planning-with-3d-printing-in-louisville-kentucky","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planning with 3D Printing in Louisville, Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is urban planning for people who thought the best part of Monopoly was playing with the little houses and hotels. At Louisville, Kentucky&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideafestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ideas festival<\/a>, community members got the chance to rearrange the city and try out new ideas for future development, all with the help of 1\/1000 scale 3D printed models of existing city buildings. <\/p>\n<p> The buildings were printed out live at the event by local hackerspace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvl1.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">LVL1<\/a>, who had collaborated with&nbsp;University&nbsp;of Kentucky&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;students to develop the models.&nbsp;Attendees were not only able to move the 3D printed buildings around the huge map of the city, but the building&#8217;s designs could be modified via Google SketchUp and printed live on one of the five 3D printers that LVL1 provided. Sort of a real-life D&amp;D tabletop game, although with no dice or goblins, and more&nbsp;discussions&nbsp;of traffic patterns and zoning designations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffbugbee\/8006421415\/sizes\/z\/in\/set-72157631577525998\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/8006421415_9384eb01ea_z.jpg\" alt=\"3D printed model buildings from Vision Louisville at Ideas Festival in Louisville, Kentucky\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The interactive event was used to kick-off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visionlouisville.com\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Louisville<\/a>, a planning initiative to shape the next 25 years of the city&#8217;s development. The city plans to hold on to the 3D printed building models and record the ideas that were developed on the map for future use. Louisville is not the first city to get the 3D printing treatment, Chicago was rendered in 3D in 2009 as part of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensysmag.com\/spatialsustain\/chicago-model-city-built-with-3d-printers.html\" target=\"_blank\">exhibit by the Chicago&nbsp;Architectural&nbsp;Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sound like a lot of fun (maybe even more than Monopoly), and if you want to get going on arranging your own city, maybe check out these sweet buildings from Shapeways&#8217; own&nbsp;<a href=\"\/shops\/pfeiffer\" target=\"_blank\">pfeiffer stylez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/technology\/2012\/09\/louisville-urban-planning-goes-3d\/3375\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic Cities<\/a> Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffbugbee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geoff Oliver Bugbee<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/geoffbugbee\/8006421415\/sizes\/z\/in\/set-72157631577525998\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is urban planning for people who thought the best part of Monopoly was playing with the little houses and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":13417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[1684,1139,551,944],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing-industry","tag-architecture","tag-miniatures","tag-video","tag-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/8006421415_9384eb01ea_z-625x416.jpg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planning with 3D Printing in Louisville, Kentucky - Shapeways Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is urban planning for people who thought the best part of Monopoly was playing with the little houses and hotels. 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