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UrbanLayers is an experimental collaborative platform for urban writing, mapping and media. Its goal is to foster creative combinations of old and new media techniques for describing and understanding cities including tours, essays, photography, maps and video. UrbanLayers is intended to span platforms and settings, for example linking location-based augmented reality using mobile devices with the emerging possibilities for long-form reading offered by tablets and ebooks.

UrbanLayers is currently under active development. Our "preview" first issue, “Food,” uses East Harlem, one of the city’s “food deserts” as a springboard for investigating the relationship between people, place, money and health in New York City. It is being released to coincide with the opening of Taller Borricua's exhibition Barri-o-rama, which includes UrbanLayers collaborator Hatuey Ramos-Fermin's Grocery Map Project.

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