• 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
Abandoned buildings in Beirut line a gravel road where there are piles of dirt and several soldiers standing guard.
A bright red sign with a giant yellow button attached, reads “Sewing Forgiveness.”
A dark sidewalk in Las Vegas, covered in puddles with a vertical neon sign in the background lighting up the area in colors of violets and blues.
SLAG GLASS CITY logoSLAG GLASS CITY logo
  • 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
Rant & Remedy

What is your bread and where are your roses?

A side of a storefront. On the left is a fancy clothing store, while the brick wall and garage door to the right is covered in colorful graffiti, with the words “Gentrify This” in the center of the art.

Urban Excursions in the Gentrifying City

A balcony view of the lower level of a deserted mall, with fluorescent lights illuminating the diner-style tiles and a single gumball machine..

You Are Not What You Used To Be

Spiraling sign of Dutler's Bowling Alley on a bright Mankato afternoon.

Dear Mankato

Brick building (almost tower-like). Abandoned and unkept with broken windows

Dear Bridgeport

Tropical-like house with a blue door and white and yellow exterior

Bone Island Blues

Kids stand on paved Chicago lakeshore, looking out over rough waters.

Write Us A City

A child plays hopscotch by herself while a lady in a headscarf walks away in the background.

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