In March 2008 I worked with Nato Thompson and Creative Time from New York City to organize a massive research project to document local socially and politically engaged cultural work going on in five cities throughout the US. We came up with five questions that we hoped would capture the diversity of ideological, methodological, organizational, [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Town Hall Talks
Posted in Essays, tagged 16 Beaver Group, Baltimore, Baltimore Development Cooperative, Brooklyn, Change You Want To See Gallery, Chicago, Creative Time, Dan Peterman, Experimental Station, Josh MacPhee, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Mess Hall, Nato Thompson, New Orleans, Suzanne Lacy, Temporary Services on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Us vs. Them: A Review of The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
Posted in Book Review, tagged Mapping, Urban Planning on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Us vs. Them: A Review of The Big Sort by Bill Bishop By Daniel Tucker (Published in The Next American City Magazine, Fall 2008. Issue #20) The Big Sort by Bill Bishop Houghton Mifflin, 2008 The new political and cultural geography of the U.S. is sorted. By “sorted,” journalist Bill Bishop essentially means “divided.” Americans [...]
People’s Atlas
Posted in News and Announcements, Writing In/By/About AREA Chicago, tagged Mapping on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was interviewed this week regarding AREA’s Notes for a People’s Atlas of Chicago project by Timeout.
