Last Call: What Burning Man teaches us about urban planning
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To the outsider, Burning Man (taking place now through September 3) has a reputation as a dusty, druggy art-orgy. But it’s also quite the organizational feat: As this Wired piece from last year notes, participants essentially build and tear down a 70,000-person city in the course of two months. The gathering is, of…