What the Controlled Chaos of Burning Man Reveals About Cities
What the Controlled Chaos of Burning Man Reveals About Cities
Every year, for the past 26 years, something truly remarkable happens: an entire city appears out of the desert. I’m speaking, of course, of Black Rock City, in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, erected for the quasi-ritualistic celebration of art, radical inclusion, and free-to-be-you-and-me-ness known as Burning Man. Burners will come home raving about barter system and the impromptu wedding they…