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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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Inconspicuous. Ubiquitous ; Camouflage ; Accretions
- Conspicuous. Identity ; Safety ; Signage
- Infrastructure. Civil ; Water ; Technology ; Roadways ; Public
- Architecture. Liminal ; Materials ; Regulations ; Towers ; Foundations ; Heritage
- Geography. Delineations ; Configurations ; Designations ; Landscapes ; Synanthropes
- Urbanism. Hostilities ; Interventions ; Catalysts
- Outro.
- 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 outlets: fake facades
- Catalytic diverters: ventilation buildings
- Neighborhood transformers: electrical substations
- Cellular biology: wireless towers
- Resourceful artifice: production wells
- Accretions
- Seeing stars: anchor plates
- Scarchitecture: urban infill
- Lines of sight: relay nodes
- Thomassons: maintained remains
- Accumulative controversy: love locks
- Spolic of war: constructive reuse
- 2. Conspicuous
- Identity
- Vexillology rules: municipal flags
- Public bodies: civic monuments
- Fonts of knowledge: historical plaques
- Distinguished features: that fancy shape
- Safety
- Mixed signals: traffic lights
- Visibility aids: retroreflective studs
- Checkered past: recognition patterns
- Memorable but meaningless: warning symbols
- Signs of times: shelter markers
- Signage
- Broad strokes: hand-painted graphics
- tube benders: neon lights
- Sky dancers: inflatable figures
- Outstanding directors: production placards
- Minded businesses: absent advertising
- 3. Infrastructure
- Civic
- Bureaucracy inaction: incidental bridge
- Good delivery: postal service
- Water
- Rounding down: manhole covers
- Upwardly potable: drinking fountains
- Reversing course: waste management
- Circling back: subsurface cisterns
- Apples to oysters: flood mitigation
- Technology
- Fine lines: utility poles
- Alternated currents: power grids
- Moonlight towers: street lights
- Dialed back: electricity meters
- Network effects: internet cables
- Roadways
- Accelerating change: painting centerlines
- Shifting responsibility: blaming jaywalkers
- Key indicators: crash testing
- Cemented divisions: lane separators
- Extra turns: safer intersections
- Circulating logic: rotary junctions
- Incomplete stops: calming tragic
- Reversing gears: changing lanes
- Public
- On verges: interstitial spaces
- Crossing over: pedestrian signals
- Sharrowed routes: cycling lanes
- Congestion costs: easing gridlock
- Extravehicular activities: naked streets
- 4. Architecture
- Liminal
- Imperfect security: locked entries
- Open and shut: revolving doors
- Improved egress: emergency exits
- Materials
- Stolen facades: recycling brick
- Aggregate effects: cracking concrete
- Hybrid solutions: amassing timber
- Regulations
- Secular orders: taxable units
- formative setbacks: mansard roofs
- Heaven to hell: property limits
- Towers
- Braking good: modern elevators
- Cladding skeletons: curtain walls
- Topping out: skyscraper races
- Unanticipated loads: managing crises
- Perspective matters: redefining skylines
- Beyond above: engineering icons
- Grouped dynamics: street canyons
- Foundations
- Vernacular enclaves: international districts
- Reality checks: service centers
- Approachable ducks: commercial signifies
- Competitive starchitecture: contrasting additions
- Heritage
- Heathen's gate: overlapping narratives
- Landmark ruling: historic preservation
- Recrowned jewel: complex restoration
- Architectural license: faithless reconstruction
- Unnatural selection: subjective stabilization
- Faded attraction: alluring abandonment
- Runed landscapes: peripheral traces
- Unbuilding codes: premeditated deconstruction
- 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: patchwork plans
- Rectilinear revelations: coordinated layouts
- Good eixamples: reconfigured super-blocks
- Standard deviation: growth patterns
- Designations
- Citations needed: informal geonyms
- Hybrid acronames: neighborhood monikers
- Calculated omissions: unlucky numbers
- Deliberated errors: fictitious entries
- Misplaced locations: null island
- Paced ways: Tucson stravenues
- Accessible voids: nameless places
- Landscapes
- Graveyard shifts: pastoral parks
- Trailing spaces: converted greenways
- Courting palms: street trees
- Lawn enforcement: owned backyards
- Lofty treescrapers: ungrounded plants
- synanthropes
- Naturalized denizens: common squirrels
- Ghost streams: fish stories
- Home to roost: unloved doves
- Raccoon resistance: trash pandas
- Unmanned lands: wildlife corridors
- 6. Urbanism
- Hostilities
- Loved park: dubious skateblockers
- Urine trouble: discouraging spikes
- Obstinate objects: discomforting seats
- Cities of light: dissuasive illumination
- Targeting demographics: disruptive sounds
- Exterior motives: deceptive deterrents
- Interventions
- Guerrilla fixation: unsanctioned shield
- - Drawing attention: viral signage
- Asking permission: open hydrants
- Seeking forgiveness: embattled boulders
- Legitimizing action: middle way
- Catalysts
- Ramping up: cutting curbs
- Cycling through: clearing cars
- Driving away: appropriating parklets
- Grating on: grassroots gardening
- Bumping out: collaborative peacemaking.
