With deeply researched entries and beautiful line drawings throughout, The 99% Invisible City will captivate devoted fans of the show and anyone curious about design, urban environments, and the unsung marvels of the world around them. Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design, host Roman Mars and coauthor Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on the various elements that make our cities work, exploring the origins and other fascinating stories behind everything from power grids and fire escapes to drinking fountains and street signs. The show celebrates design and architecture in all of its functional glory and accidental absurdity, with intriguing tales of both designers and the people impacted by their designs. Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships?ĩ9% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive, and the sidewalks we traverse. Or stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All The Way DownĪ beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast This book made me laugh, and it made me cry, and it reminded me to always read the plaque.” “ The 99% Invisible City brings into view the fascinating but often unnoticed worlds we walk and drive through every day, and to read it is to feel newly alive and aware of your place in the world. Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff, Grunt, and Gulp To know why things are as they are adds a satisfying richness to daily existence. Together, they are almost transformative. Each entry is a compact, surprising story, a thought piece, an invitation to marvel. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare-a hundred things you look at but don’t see, see but don’t know. Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. “Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. The 99 Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces. The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.” This was a particular challenge during the lean years of the late 30s. Gruen, born Viktor Grnbaum, left Austria in 1938 for New York City, where he made a name for himself designing shops and retail spaces. The Gruen effect is named after Victor Gruen, born in Vienna in 1904 to a Jewish family. Out now: The most entertaining and fascinating book about architecture and design, from the wildly popular podcast 99 Invisible. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER Courtesy of The American Heritage Center.
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