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.
687 episodes transcribedThe way homelessness has exploded in California over the last decade, you’d think there was no system in place to address it. But there is one -- it j...
According to Need is a documentary podcast in 5 chapters from 99% Invisible’s Katie Mingle that asks: What are we doing to get people into housing? Co...
Emily Anthes is the author of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behaviour, Health and Happiness, and she notes that...
As you might know, we have our own composer here at 99pi named Sean Real who works with the producers to score our episodes with original music that s...
If you’ve ever flown on a plane, you’ve been directed to study the safety briefing card in your seatback pocket. Every passenger plane, commercial or...
Enron collapsed nearly 20 years ago, but chances are something you use today was affected by emails sent by 150 of the company's top employees. These...
Geocities was an online collection of metropolises, each with their own neighborhoods built around shared interests. The city metaphor helped make a w...
During publicity interviews for The 99% Invisible City someone asked us, “What is your favorite way to experience the city?” The answer is walking. If...
This bonus episode is sponsored by Google’s Next Billion User Initiative. Every week millions of people come online for the very first time. And every...
In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the game. Teams and players would try all kinds of tricks to get a glimpse...
When we think about carbon storage, we tend to think about forests, but peatlands are also incredible carbon sinks. In Europe, peatlands contain five...
We're excited to celebrate the release of The 99% Invisible City book by host Roman Mars and producer Kurt Kohlstedt with a guided audio tour of beaut...
The unlikely battle between the creator of the New York Public Library children's reading room and the beloved children’s classic Goodnight Moon. Goo...
An address is something many people take for granted today, but they are in fact a fairly recent invention that has shaped our cities and taken on gre...
Icons and symbols and signage are all around us, and nowhere more so than on the open road. So for this episode of Ubiquitous Icons: hop in the car wi...
There have been many waves of panic and resistance to new people moving into the public sphere and needing accommodation. And a focus of that panic ha...
After the 1970s oil crisis, the global economy went into a recession. American unemployment hit 11 percent. And suddenly, middle-class families didn’t...
Winifred Gallagher, author of How the Post Office Created America argues that the post office is not simply an inexpensive way to send a letter. The s...
Before the twentieth century, most Americans rarely came into contact with police officers. But with more and more drivers behind the wheel, police de...
Walter Thompson-Hernandez was just eleven years old when he was admitted to L.A.'s infamous Scared Straight program for graffiti related crimes. In th...
