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“I Think I Met Him in a Sewer”: On Urban Easter Eggs and Moses Gates’ ‘Hidden Cities’
Bradley L. Garrett on the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland. Credit: Helen Carlton
Bradley Garrett, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of London studying urban exploration, talks about his friend Moses Gates’ book Hidden Cities. He also touches upon how the notion of public and private space differs depending on where you are and why seeing an empty train tunnel is worth the risk.
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Five Reasons Why Toronto Mayor Rob Ford May Have Smoked Crack Cocaine
What sober politician with his city’s best interests in mind would engage in the following?
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Arts, Music and Food in Next City’s ‘Hood This Weekend
The Brewerytown Spring Festival will take place in Next City’s home neighborhood this Saturday.
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Chicago Considers Reining in the Pedicabs
An ordinance now on the table in Chicago would impose some of the strictest regulations on pedicabs proposed anywhere in recent months.
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Place and Access (or the Lack Thereof) in Moses Gates’ ‘Hidden Cities’
A review of Moses Gates’ Hidden City, a memoir of ignoring “Do Not Enter” signs, and what urban exploration (read: trespassing) implies about access to great spaces.
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A New Model for Art World Collaboration In Philadelphia
A new “collective exhibition” called CITYWIDE hits Philadelphia in November.
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Tensions Flare Between Traders and Officials After an Informal Market Burns
Ever since a fire destroyed Accra’s Kantamanto Market last week, its shopkeepers have suspected the government will use the incident as an excuse to push them out in the name of progress.
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Announcing the 2013 Vanguard Class
An amazing crop of 40-under-40 of urban leaders from around the country will descend on Cleveland next month for the annual Vanguard conference. Click through to see who they are.
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Dr. Dre Jumps on the Entrepreneurship Bandwagon
Hip hop mogul Dr. Dre is underwriting an undergraduate program that seeks to cultivate the next generation of creative entrepreneurs.
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A Model to Prevent Future Factory Collapses in Bangladesh Could Be Here in the U.S.
Adam Davidson examines the t-shirt phase of economies in this weekend’s Times Magazine. Can Project Repat’s model encourage more companies to embrace American textile manufacturing?
