http://kwgs.org en http://kwgs.org/post/hidden-cities-memoir-urban-exploration <p>If you're something of a daredevil, and further, if you've ever wondered what it'd be like to climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge --- or wander amid the catacombs beneath Paris, or maybe just take an up-close look at a "ghost station" within the far-reaching New York City subway system --- you might be a latent "urban explorer." Our guest on ST is an active explorer of this sort; Moses Gates, who joins us by phone, is also an urban planner, a licensed New York City tour guide, and an assistant professor of demography at the Pratt Institute. Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:19:46 +0000 Rich Fisher 36441 at http://kwgs.org "Hidden Cities: A Memoir of Urban Exploration" http://kwgs.org/post/appearing-philbrook-noted-california-based-architect-teddy-cruz <p>On this edition of ST, we speak with Teddy Cruz, the acclaimed architect and scholar --- he's an associate professor of Public Culture and Urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego --- who will appear at a "Third Thursday" event at the Philbrook Museum of Art here in Tulsa tomorrow night (the 16th) at 6pm. A 2010 profile of Cruz that appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine --- in which he was named as one of "the Nifty 50: America's up-and-coming talent" --- begins like so: "Most architects live to build. Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:08:07 +0000 Rich Fisher 24848 at http://kwgs.org Appearing at Philbrook, the Noted California-Based Architect Teddy Cruz