Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, show host Roman Mars and producer Kurt Kohlstedt zoom in on intriguing details about how 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 tales of exceptional designers as well as frequently overlooked everyday designs. … how car dealerships became home to those dancing inflatable figures?ĩ9% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast and website about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the streets we drive on, and sidewalks we traverse. … why you don’t see those iconic metal fire escapes on new buildings? … what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean? Jackson, book reviewer for The New York Times The 99pi City by Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.” “A brief review cannot do justice to such a diverse and enlightening book …. “Conversational, bite-size entries beautiful tricolor illustrations …. “The ideal companion for city buffs, who’ll come away seeing the streets in an entirely different light.” Justin McElroy, three-time NYT best-selling author “ The 99% Invisible City is not a book, but a pair of magic glasses that transform the mundane city around you into a vibrant museum of human ingenuity.” John Green, NYT bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars 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. Michael Bierut, graphic designer, design critic, and author Just as Jane Jacobs did fifty years ago, Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt provide a new way of seeing urban life, finding secrets and surprises behind every sewer grate, storefront, and street sign.” “We usually define cities in terms of their bigness, so it’s easy to forget that our daily experience of any city is made up of countless tiny, intimate encounters. Mary Roach, NYT bestselling author of Gulp, Stiff, and Grunt 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. Update: New to the 99pi store (while supplies last): signed editions and book plates as well as postcards featuring beautiful illustrations from The 99% Invisible City! There are also a limited number of signed copies in stock at Barnes & Noble as well as participating local bookstores! The audiobook version read by Roman Mars is available on Audible and Libro.fm. Order your US copy today on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Bookshop(or internationally in the UK, Canada and Australia). The 99% Invisible City is a New York Times best-selling book by Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars - our beautifully designed and illustrated guide to the built world. A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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