Vertical Camp: Creative Urbanism
By Tyronus
[Tyronus first set foot in Black Rock City in 2002. His Masters Degree in Urban Planning, experience in responsible real ...Read More
Posts about Building BRC
Follow the stories of building an annual desert metropolis.
8-9-10
By John Curley
It was an auspicious number that marked the date for the fence this year. Eight, nine, ten. We’re not much ...Read More
Theme Camps: Encouraging Participation, Contribution and Consensus
By Affinity
[This is the second in our series of three posts about Theme Camps for the Metropol Blog Series.] Theme Camps ...Read More
The Department of Mutant Vehicles
When Burning Man first moved to the Black Rock Desert in 1990, there was hardly any structure and certainly no ...Read More
Clock Town
Tony "Coyote" Perez remembers back to the Black Rock City of 1996 ... when one could just start to detect ...Read More
Lamplighting: Function Becomes Ritual
By Steve Mobia
The Lamplighters’ service to the community – preparing and hanging the kerosene lamps that illuminate Black Rock City each night ...Read More
Managing Diversity: The Zoning of Black Rock City
[Harley K. DuBois is a founding member of the Burning Man Board, with over 15 years of project management, art ...Read More
The Street As An Urban Social Space
By Will Chase
[Metropol contributor Steven Young received his Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where his studies included ...Read More
The Black Rock Rangers – Part 1 (Origins)
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] The Black Rock Rangers are Burning Man's non-confrontational mediating agency, made ...Read More