Makeshift Magazine Issue 9 is out now.Featuring cross-border tunnel smugglers in Gaza, spacesuit stitchers in the US, and blue-dollar exchangers in Argentina.
Content
Mail by Numbers — If you live in Costa Rica, your mailman knows your home by description, not address
Following the Tracks — Mumbai’s blind train hawkers use only sound, smell, and touch to get around one of the world’s busiest cities
Observed: Kisumu, Kenya — Supporters of Raila Odinga crowd a truck on the way home from a presidential election rally
Getting Around Town — Bootstrapped transit traverses cities, rivers, and deserts where subways would leave us stranded
Typing Step by Step — Artist Joan Pons Moll uses typography to visualize running routes
A Day at the Market — More than 15,000 stalls and 400,000 shoppers cram into Chatuchak Market each weekend
Observed: Dhaka, Bangladesh — Gulistan Market, one of the busiest parts of one of the most crowded cities in the world, hums at all hours, with shoppers hunting for goods of all shapes and sizes
Toil for the Soil — Houston’s community gardeners are seeking arable land on an industrial landscape
Patchwork Relief — Gap Filler has reactivated 58 sites destroyed by Christchurch’s earthquakes
…and many more
