Book Log 2022 #33: The 99% Invisible City by Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars 

The 99% Invisible podcast focuses on the aspects of architecture and design that typically go unnoticed. This book combines topics from the pod with additional information and helpful illustrations to explain details in the built environment that we often see but usually don't understand (for example, what the symbols and colors spraypainted on pavement before digging mean).

While I found much of this book fascinating, the one drawback is that if you are a regular listener to the pod you may find that you're familiar with a lot of what's covered. This is probably a common hazard for books based on other media - I had a similar issue with For the Love of Europe by Rick Steves - but in this case there was enough new material to keep me going.