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A delightful pair of x-ray glasses for the built environment that turns a simple walk down the street into a treasure hunt. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with 99% Invisible City.
- observant
- wondrous
- eye-opening
- nerdy
- 01
A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Geoff Manaugh
A mischievous, eye-opening exploration that turns the mundane built environment into a thrilling puzzle of vulnerabilities and escape routes.
- 02
Atlas Obscura
Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and others
A beautifully curated passport to the world's most delightfully bizarre and overlooked corners, perfect for the insatiably curious.
- 03
Palaces for the people
Eric Klinenberg
A hopeful, eye-opening exploration of the physical spaces that bind our communities together.
- 04
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
A hilarious, reality-checking splash of cold water on the sci-fi dream of escaping Earth's problems.
- 05
Human transit
Jarrett Walker
A clarifying, pragmatic lens that transforms the chaotic noise of city planning into elegant, understandable geometry.
- 06
How we got to now
Steven Johnson
A thrilling intellectual treasure hunt that reveals the invisible threads connecting a glass of clean water to the invention of the microchip.
- 07
The Secret Lives Of Colour
Kassia St. Clair
A kaleidoscopic journey through history that transforms the way you see the everyday world.
- 08
Information is Beautiful
David McCandless
A visually stunning antidote to information overload that transforms complex data into beautiful, digestible art.
- 09
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
A tender, open-hearted catalog of the human experience that finds profound meaning in the mundane.
- 10
Infinite City
Rebecca Solnit
A kaleidoscopic, map-driven wandering through the hidden histories and overlapping realities of a single metropolis.
- 11
Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
An exhilarating, data-backed love letter to the bustling, messy, and miraculous engine of human progress: the metropolis.
- 12
How To
Randall Munroe
A delightfully overcomplicated manual that uses extreme, apocalyptic physics to solve the most mundane of daily problems.
