“The developed part of the city is currently arranged as series of concentric streets in an arc composing, since 1999, two-thirds of a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) diameter circle… with the Man Sculpture and his supporting complex at the very center (40°45′56.88″N, 119°13′39.59″W in 2007). Radial streets, sometimes called Avenues, extend from the Man to the outermost circle…

“The innermost street is named the Esplanade, and the remaining streets are given names to coincide with the overall theme of the burn, and ordered in ways such as alphabetical order or stem to stern, to make them easier to recall. The radial streets are usually given a clock designation (for example, “6:00, 6:15″), in which the Man is at the center of the clock face and 12:00 is in the middle of the third of the arc lacking streets….

“Center Camp is located along the midline of Black Rock City, facing the Man at the 6:00 position on the Esplanade, and serves as a central meeting place for the entire city.”

The City is located in a slightly different location each year, and the festival itself upholds a policy of “leave no trace”. The 2007 edition of Burning Man brought together 47,097 people in an otherwise empty and desolate landscape.

mappery.com/map-name/Burning-Map-2005-Map

Tasseograph: The Trash TeaHouse Temple
by Shrine and TukTuk
Hard to describe but beautiful to behold, the Tasseograph is a temple constructed entirely from found objects and food packaging. Meticulously detailed, this art project is a precious space created from non-precious materials. By replacing the gold and marble surfaces of traditional temples with aluminum can adornments and bottle-cap mandalas, we hope to inspire others to see everyday trash as beautiful, to save everyday trash and use it—not because it is responsible or right or necessary to recycle, but because people are excited about the materials and the medium. Throughout the week, tea ceremonies (tasseography is the mystical art of reading tea leaves) and other performances will highlight this deep-playa venue and intrepid participants are welcome to be a part of this intimate but grand experiment in trash alchemy.

http://www.kingstonimages.com/overview/source/gp370722.htm

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
— Jane Jacobs

http://www.burningman.com/art_of_burningman/bm10_theme.html

We ought to know how to assemble a human habitat of high quality that ... gives children and old people equal access to society's civic institutions, that produces safe neighborhoods for the well-off and the less well-off, that promotes a sense of belonging to community, that honors what is beautiful, and which does not destroy its rural and agricultural surroundings. This habitat comes down to us from history in the form of villages, towns and cities.
— James Howard Kunstler

Bantey Srey
by Patrick Doyle
Bantey Srey, described as the jewel of ancient Cambodian architecture and art, is the citadel of women, where the Vault of Heaven curves, time and space collapses and a Conic structure forms and settles into the sacred symbol of the Yoni. Bantey Srey welcomes everyone into the womb of creation where things lie down to rest as a way to make room for new concepts to be created and born.

http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/2004/04_art_playa.html