"There's all types of silly, dumb side effects of regulations," he says. "It manifests in the biggest things and it manifests in the smallest things." In paris, they would tax how high your roof was, so people made a manserd roof to avoid being taxed past a certain line. The dormer is like the paris roof that that's created because of taxes,.
On this special feature episode, President Bill Clinton interviews 99% Invisible host and creator Roman Mars.
Roman Mars has spent his career chronicling these bits of human ingenuity that we so often take for granted—things like the utility codes, the curb cuts, the traffic signals, and much more. As host of the 99% Invisible and, with Kurt Kohlstedt, co-author of the book The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, his work challenges all of us to look up and around, and to think about the how and the why of design around the world in a different way.
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