Burning Man Project’s 2026 Sustainability Update
In just over a week, tens of thousands of people will come together in one of the most unlikely environments imaginable to create Black Rock City. Like the dust itself, ...Read More
Cameras at Burning Man: Policies for the digital age
By John Curley
Burning Man is trying to figure out how to respond to the revolution in digital photography. Old timers will tell ...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
He’s Still My Best Friend
We were both rebels, so it felt fitting to end it the same way. ...Read More
Creating the Black Rock City Café
By Rod Garrett
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] Early in 2000, a young restauranteur presented an idea for a ...Read More
Designing Black Rock City
By Rod Garrett
[Editor's Note: Rod Garrett's essay Designing Black Rock City, originally written for the Burning Man website, provides a comprehensive history ...Read More
The City of Burning Man
By Rod Garrett
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] We might view Black Rock City as a great machine, efficiently ...Read More
Road Tripped
[Tony "Coyote" Perez first set foot in Black Rock City in 1996, where he immediately went to work, ultimately becoming ...Read More
Welcome to Metropol – The Story of a City
By Larry Harvey
[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] According to my dictionary, a bohemian is “a creative person, as ...Read More