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    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
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    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
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    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
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    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
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Three cars are parked on Elizabeth Avenue in Mexico in front of a furniture store.
The front of a building with two two trees on either side of the entrance. To the right, a wall has the words "FUCK YOUR CITY" spray painted on it.
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  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Submit to the City
  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
    • SECTION 9—The Living Grid
    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
  • Slag Glass Tumblr
Report & Eyewitness

If you see something say something.

An empty intersection surrounded by empty brick sidewalks and a row of street lamps in the small town of Gary, Indiana. A street sign in the foreground says “Broadway

Busy Enough to Take in the Likes of Me

Two young girls in white sweaters hold hands while Irish dancing before a small crowd of adults.

Reading Galway

Multicolored houses all in a row in Baltimore, Maryland.

Baltimore City, April 2015

Billboard with a smiling lady overlooks the construction of condominiums.

Regeneration

Shards of wood, remains of a pier, stick up through the water in front of the NYC skyline.

ABANDONED CITIES

DOGS IN THE KINGDOM

Automat, 1927 by Edward Hopper. A young girl sits alone at a cafe with a solemn look on her face.

Finding Hopper

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