Since you are reading this, chances are that your childhood has been filled with little toy cars and perhaps some model railroads. You may have used boxes, blocks, or LEGOs to create miniature cities. Perhaps you had some How Wheels tracks. Many of us have created those little cities and virtually lived in, and controlled them.

Chris Burden took that very concept and made it, shall we say, bigger. His not-so-little city sculpture consists of “18 roadways, including one six lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks. Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings. According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st century city.”

Click the jump to see a video of the sculpture in action. It is on display not at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s the sort of thing you can stare at for hours, so check it out if you’re in the area.

[Source: lacma.org | Thanks for the tip, Zeke, a.k.a. Batshitbox]