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From KQED. You're listening to Forum. I'm Mina Kkin. The pandemic has changed our physical world

and the way we interact with it in both dramatic and subtle ways.

Tape on the sidewalk to mark intervals of six feet while in line to enter a store, wooden platforms to expand the width of sidewalks for outdoor dining.

Who better to help us make sense of and maybe even find some pleasure in our changing surroundings

than Roman Mars. He spent the last several years exploring the architecture and design all

around us that we often overlook, and he's been telling us about it through his podcast, 99%

Invisible. Now Mars has a new book with Kevin Kolstead published today, The 99% Invisible City,

a field guide to the hidden world of everyday design. Welcome to Forum, Roman Mars.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, it's a pleasure having you, and it was a pleasure to look through your book. Congratulations

on your book. You know, I sort of stopped saying

congratulations to people after a while, but my sense is it's really appropriate here. I mean,

first off, as I said, it's a beautiful book, but I can really sense your excitement about it.

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