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The 99% invisible city: a field guide to the hidden world of everyday design
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2020.
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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.
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9780358126607
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