The Journal of Civic Architecture includes essays, visual essays, drawings and design projects that relate architecture, photography, literature and criticism to city life. Each issue is edited by Patrick Lynch, and addresses a series of unpredictable themes concerning urban culture and imagination.

Contributors to issue 8 include Aaron Peters and Stuart Vokes, Lasse Erkola, Simon Pendal, Patrick Lynch and Marie-José van Hee, Fabio Vericat, Cathy Hawley, Christophe Van Gerrewey and Francesca Torzo, Anne Whidden, Anna Sofie Hartmann and Missouri Williams,  and poet Alex Niven.