It is a town like any other.
Lamposts line every street...It
has a DPW and a DMV...It has
a post office and an airport. It
has suburbs.

It is a town unlike any other.
There are no elected officials...
Everyone builds his or her own
place to live...There are no stores
or restaurants; nothing is for
sale. There is no television...
There are no landlines or cell-
phones. There are no homeless...
There are no taxes. There are no
malls. There are no museums.

 

"Good Day at Black Rock"
2001

Written for the “Architect and Society”
issue of ArcCA (Architecture California),
this essay considers the three main
tenets of the experimental community
that is Burning Man.

 

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