Burning Man 'City Planner' Rod Garrett Passes Away

Having never been to Burning Man, the temporary city/festival that pops up around this time every year in the middle of the desolate Nevada desert, we’d always assumed that the whole thing had no planning at all, as a sort of “anything goes” mantra seemed like the guiding principle of the whole thing. Oh but how wrong we were, as per usual, there’s always a much more interesting story lying around the corner. The NY Times this week published an