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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Mapping Ephemeral Street Art
Note: While not an official process blog, I wanted to throw this out there since picking a topic for this project seems to have brought
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City-as-Archive: Migrant Networks
There are 800 different languages spoken around the city of New York. A recent article infers that a significant portion of these languages are oral only,
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Process Blog
Test Test Test. The man credited with creating the cubicle, Robert Propst, developed the Action Office concept while working for furniture giant Herman Miller in
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