From Amelia Earhart to s'mores: New York City's first airport to become country's largest urban campground.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that the National Park Service will develop the nation's largest urban campground at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, a former airport used by Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes.
Mr Salazar said Monday: 'We want to make New York the leading example of what we can do around the country with urban parks'.
— MailOnline
My question is: "Would this be a copyright issue with the homeless?"
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It has been studied before, 1 & 2 and successfully cataloged.
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orhan - there's camping within boston city limits.
Does anybody still camp outside Ticketmaster outlet before a big concert? Or is that a relic of the 20th century, yo!
those guys in the pic look like non NCARB certified freelance architects looking for work in another state...
There are some interesting proposals on the issue of "urban camping". This is a student's one presented at the KAM Workshops 2010:
- Urban Camping
And there's also the Urban Nomads proposal by Zo_Loft [among many others]. So, the reflection that comes to our mind is to think if "designed urban camping" is the new solution to low-cost-shelter needs or if they will keep just as speculative proposals. Ideas anyone?
Orhan ,
Some relevant links.
.I remember Glen Small's interventionist 'urban odyssey' . The student designed and fabricated tents were transported by bicycles all over Los Angeles. One of the student urban camp-site was in Century City,. Now security guards now ask you to leave. if you take pictures or rest a bit too long... keep moving.
Myself I am nostalgic for those times and freedom, and I can envision a colorful flash mob-type camp-ins as a subvert tactic.... with cameras of course.
eric chavkin
eric,
we'll collaborate when my proposal for the same no longer rejected by the administrations of various schools for being controversial, dangerous and subversive.
....rejected Now , not then,,,,
What is controversial today is control, and the total lack of any academic counter-discourse, what is dangerous is the avoidance of experiment, and what is subversive is now the answer: confrontation. Art armed and willing. We are not capitalist lackys ala Hanees Meyer and the moment is now.
eric chavkin
“pop-up schools that will appear for a few years in response to a certain movement or re-quirement, and then they’ll disappear again.”
a quote from an interesting interview with anne burdick. the director of art center media design program. remember the made up show you reviewed?
even an interview like this can cost her job she thinks...
imagine the antiseptic nature of educational institutions now...
Oh, hell yeah...! We're on our way!
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