SLAG GLASS CITY is a magazine of urban essay arts, textual burlesque and post-industrial forms. We are a creative nonfiction and multidisciplinary media journal engaged with sustainability, identity and art in urban environments. The living city is broken and blooming. How will our roof gardens grow?

We seek new, original, nonfiction literature, art and media from and about cities. Skylines are made of glass; cities are at once dense, cooperative, tense, tragic and hopeful; urban space is contested territory. Our area of concern is the livable city, but our interpretation of this language—more familiar to urban planners, geographers and city theorists than to artists—is multifaceted.

We are interested in post-industrial greening of urban spaces—from rooftop gardens to elevated bike trails to vertical farms—but we are equally enthralled by interrogative art and performance that values social justice and queerness, reinvents forms and honors the green human need to pursue pleasure, beauty and joy.