One of our favorite collections of urban tales and travels, the Urbanophile blog recently began posting a series of stories published by contributor Brendan Crain from 2007 to 2010. Crain writes like a poet, as exampled by his Heidelberg Project essay, which remains one of the most thoughtful narratives to invoke artist Tyree Guyton's vision that we've seen. Read, and enjoy.
Excerpt:
The Heidelberg Project is a very concrete visual manifestation of this
ballet. It teaches the disenfranchised and the isolated how to shape
the world around them into something beautiful. In a way, it is the
most public kind of public place: the kind where the planned social
infrastructure failed, and the people moved in, did what they do, and
created something
really useful.
Read the post
here.
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