In the Circle of Sound

In Issue 1, University of Orange offers up their antidote to speeding past and around America’s Main Streets, and it’s music to our ears.

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Off The Map

Ask artist and map fanatic Andrew Harrison for directions? He’ll tell you to get lost. Find out why and more cartographic twists in our Q&A.

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Squeezing out NYC and Philly

Co-founder Petia Morozov speaks with design historian Gabrielle Esperdy about the city of the future, and spoiler alert, it's New Jersey.

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Getting Dense with Gabrielle Esperdy

Author and architectural historian Gabrielle Esperdy gives us her first-person account why New Jersey is one very complicated place to love.

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Night Drive Home

In his Issue 1 essay, photographer David Maisel brings us on a journey down the NJ Turnpike after decades away, to make peace with dystopia.

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Wading through the Future of New Jersey

SPURSE cofounder Iain Kerr brings us on location where their Issue 1 sci-fi story, “2021–2051” takes place, under the New Jersey Turnpike.

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What Remains: Exit 15X at Snake Hill

The Turnpike’s newest exit unearthed a dark history. Writer and filmmaker Ayanna Dozier casts light on the forgotten in her Issue 1 essay.

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You from Jersey? What ecology?

Designers/educators Brian McGrath and Tommy CheeMou Yang walks us through Issue 1’s pattern book, and why we have central Jersey all wrong.

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Getting Dense with Susan Yelavich

Design scholar and critic Susan Yelavich joins us to chat about her Jersey roots, her love of mystery film and "quaking” up on the Turnpike.

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Lore of the Turnpike

From The Sopranos to artist Tony Smith, design scholar Susan Yelavich maps the Turnpike as a culture-shifting behemoth in Issue 1.

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Photo of Dense Issue 1, placed on a table in a diner booth in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Plaza Diner

Stories that explore the dreams, discoveries, confrontations, and epiphanies about place, from the frontlines of America's most densely populated state.

Bold stories, strange tangents, and surprising conversations about New Jersey.

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In the Circle of Sound

Off The Map

Squeezing out NYC and Philly

Getting Dense with Gabrielle Esperdy

Night Drive Home

Wading through the Future of New Jersey

What Remains: Exit 15X at Snake Hill

You from Jersey? What ecology?

Getting Dense with Susan Yelavich

Lore of the Turnpike

Bold stories, strange tangents, and surprising conversations about New Jersey.

Issue One

10-Issue Boxed Set

Issue Two

Issue One

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