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516: Cougar Town
515: Super Citizens
514: Train Set: Track Two
American Ivy
513: The Safety Bicycle
512: Walk of Fame
511: Vuvuzela
510: Wickedest Sound
509: Tale of the Jackalope
507: Search and Ye Might Find
506: Monumental Diplomacy
505: First Errand
504: Bleep!
502: 99% Vernacular: Volume 3
501: 99% Vernacular: Volume 2
500: 99% Vernacular: Volume 1
499: Say Aloe to My Little Frond
498: The Octagon House
497: Hometown Village
496: The Rights of Rice and Future of Nature
495: Meet Us by the Fountain
494: Flag Days: Unfolding a Moment
493: Divining Provenance
492: Inheriting Froebel’s Gifts
491: The Missing Middle
490: Train Set
489: Pandemic Tracking and the Future of Data
488: It’s a Small Aisle After All
487: Atlas Obscura
486: Rumble Strip
485: Murder Most Fowl
484: Dear Hank and John and Roman
483: Grid Locked
481: The Future of the Final Mile
482: Natalie de Blois: To Tell the Truth
480: Broken Heart Park
479: According to Need wins duPont-Columbia Award
478: Art Imitates Art
477: Call of Duty: Free
476: Reaction Offices and the Future of Work
475: Rock Paper Scissors Bus
474: The Punisher Skull
473: Mini-Stories: Volume 14
472: Mini-Stories: Volume 13
471: Mini-Stories: Volume 12
470: The Three Santas of Slovenia
469: The Epic of Collier Heights
468: Alphabetical Order
467: Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
466: The Weight
465: Shirley Cards
464: Finding Julia Morgan
463: Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
462: I Can’t Believe It’s Pink Margarine
461: Changing Stripes
323: The House that Came in the Mail
460: Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
459: Yankee Pyramids
458: Real Fake Bridges
457: Model Organism
456: Full Spectrum
455: A Field Guide to Water
454: War, Famine, Pestilence, and Design
453: The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food
452: The Lows of High Tech
451: Hanko
450: Stuff the British Stole
449: Mine!
448: Katie Mingle’s Right to Roam
447: Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green
446: Flag Days: Good Luck, True South
445: The Clinch
444: Pipe Dreams
443: Matters of Time
442: Tanz Tanz Revolution
441: Abandoned Ships
308: Curb Cuts
440: La Brega in Levittown
439: Welcome to Jurassic Art Redux
438: The Real Book
437: Science vs Snakes
436: Oops, Our Bad
435: The Megaplex!
434: Artistic License
433: Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer
432: The Batman and the Bridge Builder
431: 12 Heads from the Garden of Perfect Brightness
430: The Doom Boom
429: Stuccoed in Time
428: Beneath the Skyway
427: Mini-Stories: Volume 11
426: Mini-Stories: Volume 10
425: Mini-Stories: Volume 9
Roman Mars on Bullseye
Chapter 5: Housing Finally
Chapter 4: The List
Chapter 3: Housing First
Chapter 2: The Hotline
According to Need: Prologue
Chapter 1: Tulicia
424: The Great Indoors
423: Sean Exploder
422: In The Unlikely Event
421: You’ve Got Enron Mail!
420: The Lost Cities of Geo
419: Take a Walk
418: Sign Stealing
The Next Billion Users
417: For the Love of Peat
416: Exploring The 99% Invisible City
415: Goodnight Nobody
414: The Address Book
413: Ubiquitous Icons: Highways 101
412: Where Do We Go From Here?
411: Podcast Episode
244: The Revolutionary Post
410: Policing the Open Road
409: California Love Scared Straight
408: Valley of the Fallen
407: The Dolphin that Roared
406: A Side of Franchise
405: Freedom House Ambulance Service
404: Return of Oñate’s Foot
403: Return of the Yokai
402: Instant Gramification
AOI #12: Wedding Dresses: Articles of Interest #12
AOI #11: Diamonds: Articles of Interest #11
AOI #10: Suits: Articles of Interest #10
AOI #9: Perfume: Articles of Interest #9
AOI #8: Knockoffs: Articles of Interest #8
AOI #7: A Fantasy of Fashion: Articles of Interest #7
401: The Natural Experiment
400: The Smell of Concrete After Rain
399: Masking for a Friend
398: Unsheltered in Place
397: Wipe Out
396: This Day In Esoteric Political History
395: This is Chance! Redux
394: Roman Mars Describes Things As They Are
393: Map Quests: Political, Physical and Digital
392: The Weather Machine
391: Over the Road
390: Fraktur
389: Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out
388: Missing the Bus
387: The Worst Video Game Ever
386: Their Dark Materials
385: Shade
384: Mini-Stories: Volume 8
383: Mini-Stories: Volume 7
382: The ELIZA Effect
381: The Infantorium
380: Mannequin Pixie Dream Girl
379: Cautionary Tales
378: Ubiquitous Icons: Peace, Power, and Happiness
377: How To Pick A Pepper
376: Great Bitter Lake Association
375: Audio Guide to the Imperfections of a Perfect Masterpiece
374: Unsure Footing
373: The Kirkbride Plan
372: The Help-Yourself City
371: Dead Cars
370: The Pool and the Stream Redux
369: Wait Wait…Tell Me!
368: All Rings Considered
367: Peace Lines
366: Model City
365: On Beeing
364: He’s Still Neutral
363: Invisible Women
362: Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Twine
361: Built on Sand
360: The Universal Page
359: Life and Death in Singapore
358: The Anthropocene Reviewed
357: The Barney Design Redux
356: The Automat
355: Depave Paradise
Sound and Health: Hospitals
281: La Sagrada Família
Sound and Health: Cities
354: Weeding is Fundamental
353: From Bombay with Love
352: Uptown Squirrel
351: Play Mountain
350: The Roman Mars Mazda Virus
349: Froebel’s Gifts
348: Three Things That Made the Modern Economy
347: The Many Deaths of a Painting
346: Palaces for the People
345: Classic Cartoon Sound Effects!
344: The Known Unknown
343: Usonia
342: Beneath the Ballpark
341: National Sword
340: The Secret Lives of Color
339: The Tunnel
338: Crude Habitat
337: Atomic Tattoos
336: Mini Stories: Volume 6
335: Gathering the Magic
334: Christmas with The Allusionist
333: Mini Stories: Volume 5
332: The Accidental Room
331: Oñate’s Foot
330: Raccoon Resistance
201: The Green Book Redux
329: Orphan Drugs
328: Devolutionary Design
327: A Year in the Dark
326: Welcome to Jurassic Art
325: The Worst Way to Start a City
Punk Style: Articles of Interest #6
Blue Jeans: Articles of Interest #5
Hawaiian Shirts: Articles of Interest #4
Pockets: Articles of Interest #3
Plaid: Articles of Interest #2
Kids’ Clothes: Articles of Interest #1
324: Billboard Boys: The Greatest Radio Contest of All Time
323: The House that Came in the Mail
322: The First Straw
321: Double Standards
320: Bundyville
319: It’s Chinatown
318: Fire and Rain
317: Built to Burn
316: The Shipping Forecast
315: Everything is Alive
314: Interrobang
313: Right to Roam
312: Post-Narco Urbanism
311: The Barney Design
310: 77 Steps
309: The Vault
307: Immobile Homes
306: Breaking Bad News
305: The Laff Box
304: Gander International Airport
303: The Hair Chart
302: Lessons from Las Vegas
301: Making It Rain
300: Airships and the Future that Never Was
299: Gerrymandering
200: Miss Manhattan Redux
298: Fordlandia
297: Blood, Sweat & Tears (City of the Future, Part 2)
296: Bijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)
295: Making a Mark: Visual Identity with Tom Geismar
294: Border Wall
293: Managed Retreat
292: Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud
291: Thermal Delight
290: Mini-Stories: Volume 4
289: Mini-Stories: Volume 3
288: Guerrilla Public Service Redux
287: The Nut Behind the Wheel
286: A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream
285: Money Makers
284: Hero Props: Graphic Design in Film & Television
283: Dollhouses of St. Louis
282: Oyster-tecture
281: La Sagrada Família
280: Half Measures
279: The Containment Plan
278: The Athletic Brassiere
277: Ponte City Tower
276: The Finnish Experiment
275: Coal Hogs Work Safe
274: The Age of the Algorithm
273: Notes on an Imagined Plaque
272: Person in Lotus Position
271: The Great Dismal Swamp
270: The Stethoscope
269: Ways of Hearing
268: El Gordo
267: The Trials of Dan and Dave
266: Repackaging the Pill
265: The Pool and the Stream
264: Mexico 68
263: You Should Do a Story
262: In the Same Ballpark
199: The Yin and Yang of Basketball
261: Squatters of the Lower East Side
260: New Jersey
259: This Is Chance: Anchorwoman of the Great Alaska Earthquake
258: The Modern Necropolis
257: Reversing the Grid
256: Sounds Natural
255: The Architect of Hollywood
254: Containers: The Ships, the Tugs and the Port
253: Manzanar
252: The Falling of the Lenins
251: Negative Space: Logo Design with Michael Bierut
250: State (Sanctuary, Part 2)
249: Church (Sanctuary, Part 1)
248: Atom in the Garden of Eden
247: Usonia the Beautiful
246: Usonia 1
245: The Eponymist
243: Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle
242: Mini-Stories: Volume 2
241: Mini-Stories: Volume 1
240: Plat of Zion
239: Guano Mania
238: NBC Chimes: Behind the Scenes with the First Trademarked Sound
237: Dollar Store Town: Inside the World’s Biggest Wholesale Market
236: Reverb: The Evolution of Architectural Acoustics
235: Ten Letters for the President
234: The Shift: Redesigning Baseball’s Defense
233: Space Trash, Space Treasure
232: McMansion Hell: The Devil is in the Details
231: Half a House
230: Project Cybersyn
229: The Trend Forecast
228: Making Up Ground
227: Public Works: Rethinking America’s Transportation Infrastructure
226: On Average
225: Photo Credit: Negatives of the Bauhaus
224: A Sea Worth its Salt
223: The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle
222: Combat Hearing Loss
221: America’s Last Top Model
220: The Mind of an Architect
219: Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture
218: Remembering Stonewall
217: Home on Lagrange
216: The Blazer Experiment
215: H-Day
214: Loud and Clear
213: Separation Anxiety
212: Turf Wars of East New York
211: The Grand Dame of Broad Street
210: Unseen City: Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
209: Supertall 101
208: Vox Ex Machina
207: Soul City
206: The White Elephant of Tel Aviv
205: Flying Food
204: The SoHo Effect
203: The Giftschrank
202: Mojave Phone Booth
201: The Green Book
200: Miss Manhattan
198: The Ice King
197: Fish Cannon
196: The Fresno Drop
195: Best Enjoyed By
194: Bone Music
193: Tube Benders
192: Pagodas and Dragon Gates
191: Worst Smell in the World
190: Fixing the Hobo Suit
189: The Landlord’s Game
188: Fountain Drinks
187: Butterfly Effects
186: War and Pizza
185: Atmospherians
110: Structural Integrity
184: Rajneeshpuram
183: Dead Letter Office
182: A Sweet Surprise Awaits You
181: Milk Carton Kids
180: Reefer Madness
179: Bathysphere
178: The Great Restoration
177: Lawn Order
176: Hard to Love a Brute
175: The Sunshine Hotel
174: From The Sea, Freedom
173: Awareness
172: On Location
171: Johnnycab (Automation Paradox, pt. 2)
170: Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1)
169: Freud’s Couch
168: All In Your Head
167: Voices in the Wire
166: Viva La Arquitectura!
165: The Nutshell Studies
164: The Post-Billiards Age
163: The Gruen Effect
162: Mystery House
161: Show of Force
160: Perfect Security
159: The Calendar
158: Sandhogs
54: The Colour of Money (R)
157: Devil’s Rope
156: Coin Check
155: Palm Reading
154: PDX Carpet
153: Game Over
151: La Mascotte
150: Under the Moonlight
149: Of Mice And Men
148: The Sizzle
147: Penn Station Sucks
146: Mooallempalooza
145: Octothorpe
144: There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
143: Inflatable Men
142: And The Winner Is
141: Three Records From Sundown
140: Vexillonaire
139: Edge Of Your Seat
138: O-U-I-J-A
137: Good Bread
136: Lights Out
135: For Amusement Only
134: The Straight Line Is A Godless Line
133: Port of Dallas
132: Castle On The Park
131: Genesis Object
130: Holdout
129: Thomassons
128: Hacking IKEA
127: The Sound of Sports
126: Walk This Way
125: Duplitecture
124: Longbox
123: Snowflake
122: Good Egress
121: Cold War Kids
120: Skyjacking
119: Feet of Engineering
118: Song Exploder
117: Clean Trains
116: Breaking the Bank
115: Cow Tunnels
114: Ten Thousand Years
113: Monumental Dilemma
112: Young Ruin
111: Masters of the Uni-verse
110: Structural Integrity
109: Title TK
108: Barcodes
107: Call Now!
106: The Fancy Shape
105: One Man Is An Island
104: Tunnel 57
103: U.T.B.A.P.H.
102: Icon For Access
101: Cover Story
100: Higher and Higher
99: The View From The 79th Floor
98: Six Stories
97: Numbers Stations
96: DIY Space Suits
95: Future Screens are Mostly Blue
94: Unbuilt
93: Revolving Doors
92: All the Buildings
91x: Kickstarter Season 4 Announcement
91: Wild Ones Live
90: Strowger Switch + Purple Reign Redux
89: Bubble Houses
88: The Broadcast Clock
87: I Heart NY, TM
86: Reversal of Fortune
85: Noble Effort
84: Ladislav Sutnar + Trading Places with Planet Money
83: Heyoon
82: The Man of Tomorrow
81: Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge
80: An Architect’s Code
79: Symphony of Sirens, Revisited
78: No Armed Bandit
77: Game Changer
76: The Modern Moloch
75: Secret Staircases
74: Hand Painted Signs
73: The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems
72: New Old Town
71: In and Out of LOVE
70: The Great Red Car Conspiracy
69: The Brief and Tumultuous Life of the New UC Logo
68: Built for Speed
67: Broken Window
66: Kowloon Walled City
65: Razzle Dazzle
64: Derelict Dome
63: The Political Stage
62: Q2
61: A Series of Tubes
60b: BackStory: Heyward Shepherd Memorial
60a: Two Storeys: Language Bites and the Memory Palace
60: Names vs The Nothing
59: Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life
58: Purple Reign
57: What Gave You That Idea?
56: Frozen Music
55: The Best Beer in the World
54: The Colour of Money
53: The Xanadu Effect
52: Galloping Gertie
51: The Arsenal of Exclusion
50: DeafSpace
49: Queue Theory and Design
48: The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room
47: US Postal Service Stamps
46: Vulcanite Dentures, or When Patent Violators Strike Back
45: Beauty Pill’s Immersive Ideal
44: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
43: The Accidental Music of Imperfect Escalators
42: Recognizably Anonymous
41: The Human-Human Interface
40: Billy Possum
39X: The Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
39: The Darth Vader Family Courthouse
38: The Sound of Sport
37: The Steering Wheel
36: Super Bon Bonn
35: Elegy for WTC
34: The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids
33: A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll
32: Design for Airports
31: The Feltron Annual Report
30: The Blue Yarn
29: Cul-de-Sac
28: Movie Title Sequences
27: Bridge to the Sky
26: The MCC: Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper
25: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design
24: The Two Fates of the Old East Portico
23: You Are Listening To + Radio Net
22: The Invisible Monument to Free Speech
21: BLDGBLOG: On Sound
20: Nikko: Concrete Commando
19x: RJDJ Reactive Music
19: Liberation Squares + NY Dick
18: Check Cashing Stores
17: Concrete Furniture
16: A Designed Language
15: The Sound of the Artificial World
14: The Periodic Table: Infographic Apotheosis
13: Maps, They Don’t Love You like I Love You
12: 99% Guilt Free
11: 99% Undesigned (But Still Evil)
10: 99% Sound and Feel
09: 99% Private
09X: One Way Ticket to Mars
08: 99% Free Parking
07: 99% Alien
06: 99% Symbolic
05: 99% Forgotten
04: 99% Details
03: 99% Reality (1% Augmented)
02: 99% 180
01: 99% Noise