Artists' SoHoDuring the 1960s and 1970s in New York City, young artists exploited an industrial wasteland to create spacious studios where they lived and worked, redefining the Manhattan area just south of Houston Street. Its use fueled not by city planning schemes but by word of mouth recommendations, the area soon grew to become a world class center for artistic creationindeed, the largest urban artists colony ever in America, let alone the world. Richard