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  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—THE ARCHIVAL CITY
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
    • SPECIAL ISSUE—This Blissful City 2021
  • 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
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    • Slag Glass Happenings
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    • BIG SHOULDERS BOOKS: Virus City
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Tagged: Public Transportation

A Particular Sense of Highway Comradery

A large building covered entirely in tiny, square windows.

IT IS NOT WASTE ALL THIS, NOT PLACED HERE IN DISGUST, STREET AFTER STREET

A train rushes past the Montrose CTA brown line in Chicago

Please Stand Clear of the Doors

Mexico City

New York city street illuminated by the golden hour.

Metropolis

Frank

A narrow street between two ornate buildings in Bukhansen leads downhill. The rest of the skyline can be seen in the distance.

Bukhansan

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