Key Insights From:
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
Key Insights From:
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt
What You'll Learn:
From traffic lights and telephone poles to sewage drains disguised as monuments, we pour meaning into our public spaces like cement into the concrete slabs of a sidewalk. Oftentimes though, our focus is pulled toward the more obvious beauties of our surroundings like new buildings or polished neighborhoods. Creative innovator of the acclaimed podcast 99% Invisible Roman Mars and show producer Kurt Kohlstedt lead readers through a tour de force of the concealed stories of our cities, lifting the manhole cover of uniformity to reveal underlying meaning—let’s just say, you’ll never look at a stop sign the same way again.
Key Insights:
- Beneath every monument is mystery—meaning carved in marble.
- Read between your city’s signs.
- Look out for hidden “Thomassons”—sometimes function is forgotten.
- Paris, China, and New York envision carless futures and roads without boundaries.
- Do you prefer a Wall Street high rise or an intercity “duck”? Architecture varies by artistic vision.
- “Tactical urbanism” bypasses authority to renew the city.
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