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[Metropol contributor Steven Young received his Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where his studies included
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[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] The Black Rock Rangers are Burning Man's non-confrontational mediating agency, made
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[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] Early in 2000, a young restauranteur presented an idea for a
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[Editor's Note: Rod Garrett's essay Designing Black Rock City, originally written for the Burning Man website, provides a comprehensive history
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[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] We might view Black Rock City as a great machine, efficiently
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[Tony "Coyote" Perez first set foot in Black Rock City in 1996, where he immediately went to work, ultimately becoming
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[This post is part of the Metropol Blog Series.] According to my dictionary, a bohemian is “a creative person, as
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Take your plans and make them real. For a lot of Burners, it's a yearlong task. You plot and plan
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It was the day before the gates would open, and all through the city, people were getting ready for the
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