1. Background and Context: As an art form, street art and graffiti have had a stylistic resurgence in media during the past decade, although it
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Last of the Westside Cowboys: How the High Line Molded Manhattan
If a child carelessly leaves a door open a sarcastic parent may sometimes ask “Were you raised in a barn?” Well I wasn’t raised
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The Public School New York: A Walking Tour of Downtown’s Passed Art World
On Sunday October 9th, at 5 p.m., I took part in a 90 minute walking tour of the lower west side of Manhattan, examining the
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Cartograffic Rewrites – Mapping the Mechanism of Graffiti Removal
Graffiti in New York City plays the part in a well defined administrative feedback loop. After the street art is illegally applied to an
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The History of Artists and Art Production in SoHo
In 1966, Fluxus founder and counter cultural activist George Maciunas became captivated with the idea of artist cooperatives as a vehicle for the liberation of
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Independent Bookstores in NYC: Past & Present
Source: East Carolina University. Joyner Library Digital Collections. Stuart Wright Collection – Randall Jarrell Papers # 1169-005.7.f The idea for my topic was inspired by
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Project Proposal (Proposal)
Below is my initial proposal and following that is my thought process following class on Wednesday Oct. 5: The Heart of New York City
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Map Warper Training, Saturday, 10/29, 10am-1pm
We’ll meet on Saturday, October 29th at 10:00am in the Map Division, first floor, room 117 of the of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on
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Urban Research & Mobile Media @ Mobility Shifts, Oct. 13 @ 7:30pm
Mobility Shifts Thursday, October 13, 7:30-9:30 pm Theresa Lang Student and Community Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th St., 2nd floor Urban Research & Mobile
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Mapping GeoCities
Hey all found this article in GOOD this morning on how Dutch designer, Richard Vijen, plotted all data from the former GeoCities into a scrollable
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