Archinect - News 2024-12-22T05:57:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/49158273/creating-the-post-hipster-city Creating the Post-Hipster City Nam Henderson 2012-05-22T22:23:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/02/022hk5yrckv283gn.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>we want to experiment in making better public spaces. Cities are built in a very formal and classist fashion, which is at odds with the good that rapid production and public participation can do for urban development.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Tidda Tippapart recently talked to&nbsp;Aurash Khawarzad (&nbsp;founder of <a href="http://changeadministration.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Change Administration</a> + co-founder of the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary collective <a href="http://dotankbrooklyn.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DoTank</a>) about the&nbsp;challenge&nbsp;of creating the post-Hipster city, gentrification, and what it means to (re)build New York City from the ground up.</p>