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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
“A lovely collection of blog posts about all the hidden stuff in your city. Why lampposts are shaped the way they are. Why manhole covers are round. What the markings on sidewalks mean. It’s a great reader – every ‘chapter’ is really just a blog post or podcast episode, so you can read 4-5 of them…”
Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
“A magisterial history of the Hoover Dam, all the way from the problems of the late 1800s that it was meant to solve, through the arguments during its planning, to the construction and beyond (in fact, they don’t even start building the dam until halfway through the book). The Hoover Dam was an…”
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“I have wanted to read this book for ages. I have a weird fascination with urban planning, and this book is held up as seminal. It’s from the 60s, and was written by the legendary Jane Jacobs. What I find interesting about the book is where it starts: with a chapter on sidewalks. I remember…”
Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
“this is a wonderful examination of an interesting topic: how do buildings change over time? How do they age? How are they modified? This is something I’ve never really considered. I guess I new that buildings get remodeled, but the dynamics of that remodeling reveals things about the building and…”
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Information Design
Libraries: Libraries
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
“ A very deep, theoretical book on the design process, and on matching a solution to a problem. This one isn’t for the faint of heart. It attempts to distill the design process to math, almost. I got a little lost towards the end, but I love a deep dissection of a process like this, so it was fun. ”
The Pillars of the Earth
“This is an epic historical novel. It covers about 50 years in the life of a 12th century English town called Kingsbridge. It’s not fantasy – there’s no magic, no dragons, etc. The book represents actual life in the Middle Ages. The central conflict is the building of a cathedral in Kingsbridge….”
The Timeless Way of Building
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
“Genuinely one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read, hands down. Speck explains why and how our cities started being designed first for cars, then for people, and why this is bad. Then he gives us 10 ways to change it, from increasing pedestrian safety, to fixing parking, to making the…”
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture
“A solid book that’s an introduction to engineering. It explains – in the clearest, simplest way – how buildings stay upright. It talks about loads, materials, and different ways of organizing those in a never-ending war with gravity. Along the way, the book looks at some historic structures and why…”