The 99 Percent Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by Roman Mars

A New York Times, Washington Post, Usa Today, And Publishers Weekly Bestseller [A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces. The New York Times Book ReviewHere is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city's secret anatomy laid bare a hundred things you look at but don't see, see but don't know. Each entry is a compact, surprising story, a thought piece, an invitation to marvel. Together, they are almost transformative. To know why things are as they are adds a satisfying richness to daily existence. This book is terrific, just terrific. Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff, Grunt, and Gulp The 99% Invisible City brings into view the fascinating but often unnoticed worlds we walk and drive through every day, and to read it is to feel newly alive and aware of your place in the world. This book made me laugh, and it made me cry, and it reminded me to always read the plaque.