World-famous architects and cultural historians, including Rem Koolhaas, Guy Nordenson, Jean-Louis Cohen, Peter Eisenman, Ken Jackson, Tony Fletcher and others, will narrate the moonlight bike tour that will take participants from the Guggenheim Museum to Downtown Manhattan, riding past icons (and failures) of New York's architecture, urban policy and social/cultural life, culminating with a picnic at dawn on Pier 1 of the Brooklyn Bridge Park. The official partners for Velonight NYC is theNew York Historical Society, , and the following US and International magazines: Log, Abitare, Domus, Project Russia and Image. The VELONIGHT NYC event is free of charge. To register, please go to: http://velonightnyc.blogspot.com.
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This video covers most significant aspects of the 5th edition of the Moscow Velonight July 2/3, 2011. Unforgettable experience around Leningradsky prospekt, one of the city most important streets with monuments from Baroque to Constructivism.
5.000 people joined the initiative that night to explore the city with contributions by Russia's leading historians Alexander Nilin, Vladimir Paperny, Olga Eliseeva, Mikhail Shifrin, Yuri Egorov and writer Vladimir Voinovich.
