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Zoning The Incidental Metropolis

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Kaye Simonson
18 June 2004 - 2:00pm

The urban planning of the Burning Man Festival's "incidental metropolis," Black Rock City, shows what makes a city work and what is essential to a community.

"What happens when a band of naked, fire-worshipping anarchists attract a massive following? Well, they become a city -- a city with infrastructure, departments, city services, subdivided blocks and, yes, even that apogee of municipal control: zoning."

Full Story: Burning Man Gets Zoned
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle, June 15, 2004
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