The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By: Roman Mars
4.03
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the cr…
Want to Read $ 18.99"A round of applause for circles."-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
"A round of applause for circles."-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can seem noble, but they follow a potentially dangerous logic with respect to public spaces. When supposed solutions address symptoms of a problem rather than the root causes, that problem is not solved but only pushed down the street to the next block or neighborhood. Spikes beget spikes, and targeted individuals are just moved around without addressing the underlying issues."-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can seem noble, but they follow a potentially dangerous logic with respect to public spaces. When supposed solutions address symptoms of a problem rather than the root causes, that problem is not solved but only pushed down the street to the next block or neighborhood. Spikes beget spikes, and targeted individuals are just moved around without addressing the underlying issues."-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
From New York Timesbestselling author, "one of America's top cultural critics" (Entertainment Weekl… read more
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3. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
By: Charles Montgomery
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Charles Montgomery's Happy Citywill revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades … read more
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4. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
By: Marc Levinson
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston… read more
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5. The Ten Books on Architecture
By: Morris Hicky Morgan , None
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
The oldest and most influential book ever written on architecture, this volume served as a guide to… read more
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6. A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
By: Norman Foster , Vishaan Chakrabarti , SHoP Architects
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In "A Country of Cities," author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key t… read more
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7. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
By: Thomas Dyja
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A cultural history of Chicago at midcentury, with its incredible mix of architects, politicians, mu… read more
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8. A Burglar's Guide to the City
By: Geoff Manaugh
4.00
Format: 384 pages,
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide… read more
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9. The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
By: Richard Florida
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades … read more
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10. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
By: Rem Koolhaas
4.16
Format: None pages,
In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Archi… read more
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11. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War… read more
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12. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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13. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
By: Ken Jennings
4.43
Format: 85 pages, Hardcover
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonksis Ken's followup to his 2005 best-seller… read more
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14. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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15. Green Metropolis: What the City Can Teach the Country About True Sustainability
By: David Owen
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. In … read more
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16. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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17. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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18. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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19. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
20. Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
By: Richard Snow
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known event… read more
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21. The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
By: Roman Mars
4.03
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
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"A round of applause for circles."-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
"For better or worse, defensive designs limit the range of activities people can engage in. They can also create real problems for the elderly or disabled. Some of the goals of unpleasant designs can …"-Roman Mars, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
22. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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23. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close
By: Hannah Carlson
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more
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24. Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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25. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
By: Brian Merchant
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more
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"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
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"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
26. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
By: Ross Perlin
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary Ne… read more
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27. Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things
By: Josh Clark
3.94
Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition
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28. The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
By: David Herszenhorn
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin’s nemesis Alexey Navalny— lawyer, blogger, anti-corruptio… read more
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29. The Urban Sketching Handbook Techniques for Beginners: How to Build a Practice for Sketching on Location (Urban Sketching Handbooks)
By: Suhita Shirodkar
4.28
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Urban Sketching Techniques for Beginners, artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Sh… read more
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30. Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
By: Grady Hillhouse
4.26
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide to the infrastructure around us… read more
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31. Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World--and Ourselves
By: Matt Simon
3.79
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us a… read more
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