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The 99% Invisible City

By: Roman Mars, 99% Invisible, Kurt Kohlstedt
Narrated by: Roman Mars
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Summary

An entertaining guide to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, featuring new and exclusive material from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast.

Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk mean?

Or stopped to ponder who gets to name the streets we walk along?

Or what the story is behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships?

99% 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. 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. 

Now, in The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to Hidden World of Everyday Design, host Roman Mars and co-author 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. 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.

You are about to see stories everywhere, you beautiful nerd. Now get out there.

©2020 Roman Mars (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

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A good intro to the regular podcast

Most of the content was not exclusive to the book. Lots of articles that have been mentioned on the podcast filled these digital pages. So if you are a fan listened of their weekly podcast. knownthat you will hear stuff that has already been mentioned in the free podcast.

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Ideal gift for the inquisitive person

Roman Mars has such sonorous voice. Worth listening to him reading anything. This book is a step up from the podcast of the same name. A great gift for anyone who want to know about “stuff” you would not normally notice.

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