When a group of Burners describing themselves as the Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning announced a design competition last fall for a new urban plan for Burning Man, Phil Walker had never given the matter much thought.

“I’m actually not a Burner. I’ve never done it,” says Walker, the senior associate vice president for CallisonRTKL, an architecture firm and design consultancy. “Maybe a bit of vicarious living for a middle-aged suburban dad is what appealed to me.”......Continue Reading

Last fall, the Black Rock City Ministry of Urban Planning announced a new competition for Burners in the Nevada desert, and they asked: ''If you could design Black Rock City, what would you build?''

Regarding that question, thousands of people from nearly every country in the world expressed an interest in submitting their ideas.

The result of this unofficial design competition is a free ebook of almost 100 city plans from contributors in over 30 countries. These designs, ranging from rough sketches to beautifully detailed renderings, explore the concept of Black Rock City as an imagined space, from straightforward adaptations to the current plan to completely new and science fictional cityscapes.

Top image: The “Circle” plan from Phil Walker’s “Kit of Parts” plan for Burning Man. Courtesy of CallisonRTKL

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