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The 99% invisible city : a field guide to the hidden world of everyday design /

"A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast." --

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mars, Roman
Group Author: Kohlstedt, Kurt
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Publisher Address: Boston :
Publication Dates: [2020]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Miscellanea.
Public works > Miscellanea.
Design > Human factors.
DESIGN / History & Criticism.
REFERENCE / Curiosities & Wonders.
ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments
Cities and towns.
Public works.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Summary: "A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast." --
Have you ever stopped to consider why you don't see metal fire escapes on new buildings? Or pondered the story behind those dancing inflatable figures in car dealerships? Mars and Kohlstedt reveal the stories baked into the buildings we inhabit, the str
Carrier Form: x, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-375) and index.
ISBN: 9780358126607 (hardback) :
0358126606
Index Number: NA9050
CLC: TU984
Call Number: TU984/M363-1
Contents: 1. Inconspicuous -- Ubiquitous -- Official graffiti: utility codes -- Initialed impressions: sidewalk markings -- Planned failure: breakaway posts -- A little safer: emergency boxes -- Camouflage -- Thornton's scent bottle: stink pipes -- Exhaustive out
5. Geography -- Delineations -- Points of origin: zero markers -- Edge cases: boundary stones -- Defining moments: standardized time -- Road boosters: national highways -- Configurations -- Rounding errors: Jeffersonian grids -- Unassigned lands: patchw

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