The Crosstown A field map of ordinary city life

Issue 01 · September 2026

Eight stops. Five lines. One very ordinary city, drawn the way you actually move through it.

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    How to read the map

    Every story is a stop. The colour of the line tells you its topic, and the interchange in the middle is where the whole thing meets. Save the stops you want to keep and a private route is drawn between them — your line, threaded across the city.

    Credits

    The Crosstown is a fictional publication. All stories, people and places are invented. Photographs are optional illustrative stock from Unsplash (Unsplash License) and are not documentary evidence of the stories. Type is set in DM Serif Display, Literata and IBM Plex Mono under the SIL Open Font License. Licenses.