emmadilemma reviewed The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings …
Enlightening for the like-minded
3 stars
By the makers of the 99% Invisible podcast, this book offers dozens of bite-sized views of the built environment, its limitations, and those who would transcend them.
It has a particular worldview, one somewhere between New Urbanists and City Beautiful. But it acknowledges and calls itself on this view continually, noting that improvement to some is gentrification to others.