The 99% Invisble City

Roman Mars

Review

This book is the perfect mix of learning random facts that stick around in the mind and nurturing the reader's curiosity about the design of everyday things. A great read anyone who has wondered why things in our cities are the way they are. The book itself is also very well-designed. The book features a half-height book jacket that serves as written guide for the design diagram that comprises a large part of the cover itself.

Notable Quotes

"Tensions like these can be found at the intersection of a lot of top-down plans and bottom-up approaches— conflicts between different visions for what a city can and should be and how it should serve its citizens." (346)

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