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About the podcast
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing.
99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars.
Learn more at 99percentinvisible.org
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The world’s largest housing co-op—built to save New York City’s middle class—became the unlikely site of a resident revolt
The surprisingly long history of trying to use robots to call balls and strikes in baseball. With an update!
A missing car reveals the confusing rules, murky fees, and private actors behind modern towing.
In a place where losing power can turn deadly, keeping the lights on is a high-stakes balancing act.
Why did it take nearly a decade to redesign a city trash can, and why haven't more bins made the streets cleaner?
Roman and Elizabeth discuss Article V, which lays out the process to amend the Constitution. Jill Lepore is our guest.
What the world's most advanced traffic system can—and can't—do for the city that invented gridlock.
The surprising power of a simple phone number to connect a community.
How one wealthy, amateur astronomer convinced the world Martians were real.
For centuries, the world's greatest minds were stumped by the deadly mystery of longitude, until an obsessive underdog entered the fray and changed navigation forever.