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Issue 14 Low Water Autumn 2026

The River Keeps Its Receipts

Along a drought-exposed riverbed, shop ledgers, bottle caps, and vanished street plans surface together. A field essay about civic memory and what infrastructure tries to forget.

Imani Vale Field essay28 pages

Contour survey of a drained river channel Six nested contour lines trace the bed of a low river running diagonally across the sheet, the innermost holding a thin pool of water. A dashed line follows the deepest channel. A legend gives contour values from zero at the bank top down to minus four point one metres, the deepest sounding, and a scale bar measures four hundred metres. Corner registration marks frame the survey.
Plate I Contours drawn from the low-water survey of the south reach, where the channel is currently under two metres of water at its deepest.

Also in Issue 14

Three reports96 pagesISBN 978-4-0000-0140-3

Night Bus Atlas

Tomás Iriarte

The unofficial geography drawn by cleaners, nurses, bakers, and drivers while a city's daytime map is asleep.

Report18 pages

Concrete Orchards

Meera Das

Residents tend fruit trees in the unfinished floors of a financial district, negotiating shade, ownership, and the patience of roots.

Report22 pages

A Language for Empty Pools

Hana Mori

Photographs and short notes from public baths retired after the last swimmer, where tile patterns keep directing bodies that no longer arrive.

Portfolio14 pages

From the archive

Issues 11–13

  1. Issue 13

    After the Last Train

    Night timetables, and the people who keep a city awake while everyone else is asleep.

  2. Issue 12

    Borrowed Ground

    Libraries, allotments, verges, and other land held in common by people who did not own it.

  3. Issue 11

    The Weather Indoors

    Climate, comfort, and the quiet architecture of what we expect to be protected from.

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