Burners 'round the globe will soon make the pilgrimage to Black Rock City, a "temporary metropolis dedicated to art and community" in Nevada's desert. The psychedelic social experiment born of "radical self-reliance" known as Burning Man begins this Sunday, and in its nearly 30-year history has attracted legions of loyalists, while also being criticized for a radicalism compromised by expensive ticket prices and a "buddy-buddy relationship with Silicon Valley billionaires"*.

By its nature, Black Rock City disappears when Burning Man ends – but many similarly radical communities around the world are being built to last. Sure, no giant effigies, but often, infrastructure!

This piece from ajc.com looks at some of the other experiments in communal living from around the world – from ecovillage Findhorn Foundation in Scotland to Copenhagen's autonomous Christiana and even autonomous micronations like the Principality of Sealand.

More news from The Burn:

• 300-mile wall "proposed" for the Bay Area to exile Burning Man festivalgoers, forever
• Gentrification of Burning Man
• Rod Garrett, the Urban Planner Behind ‘Burning Man’, dead at 74