99% Invisible
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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 Power Broker is great!
Sep 29
I love 99PI and Roman Mars, but I'm writing to praise The Power Broker, a monthly series in the 99PI feed hosted by Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan. Each episode is over 2 hours long, so under normal circumstances, I would skip it. I subscribe to way too many podcasts and just aren't enough hours in a day to listen to every episode. But The Power Broker is SO worth the time. It's basically a recap and discussion of Robert Caro's 1974 Pulitzer Prize wining book of the same name, a few chapters at a time. "The Power Broker is a biography of Robert Moses, the transformative city planner of New York during the mid-1900s, who was obsessed with one thing: power" (from the description on Amazon.com). This description could make it sound boring for anyone who doesn't live in NYC, but it's actually fascinating, and the recap is frequently very funny. Each episode also features a discussion with a different guest who has some connection with the section of the book being discussed. I can't recommend this series enough.
Love but….
Sep 26
I love 99pi but I really really really dislike when I click on a podcast and they have episodes of A DIFFERENT PODCAST. I hate it. 99pi is amongst the most guilty
They’re SUPER left wingers
Sep 28
WOKE CLOWNS
Stuccoed in Time
Sep 20
SO many things to praise! First, the cleverness of the titles of the episodes, their playing with language, I find delightful and insightful—this one being no exception. Second, as always, I increased my store of knowledge—always enriching. Third, there was something new that I could connect with something else I already knew about, and thereby strengthened my understanding of a concept or a tendency or an issue. This time it was what I’ll call the cultural insensitivity of the HUD effort in the pueblo mentioned. It reminded me of a parallel instance years ago in Iraq when the U.S. government built housing for Iraqis that completely ignored their cultural context and therefore was very, as they, problematic for the Iraqis who moved into that housing. Well done, as always, 99 P I!
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- Channel
- CreatorRoman Mars
- Years Active2010 - 2024
- Episodes686
- RatingClean
- CopyrightCopyright © 2024 Roman Mars. All rights reserved.
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- ProviderSirius XM Radio Inc