Reviews
"Geoff Manaugh has provided the reader with an excursion into a new world-part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting." -Errol Morris, Director of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and the Academy Award-winning documentary Fog of War, "This is a marvelous wonder-room of a thing, an intricate, deeply researched, and brilliantly written mad scientist's tour of crime and how it's bound to the world we've built. Revealing, spectacular, and riveting." --Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine and The Planetary Omnibus "This burglar's guide isn't for ordinary smash and grab burglars, it's for the rest of us--who like to steal in, steal out, and get away with glorious dreams. A spectacularly fun read." --Robert Krulwich, co-host of Radiolab "Murphy's Law--anything that can go wrong will go wrong--is especially true for architecture. Geoff Manaugh's liaisons with burglars and bank robbers reveal unexplored niches and loopholes in our cities, and through the eyes of urban hackers we find new possibilities for reinterpreting the built environment. A Burglar's Guide to the City shows that architecture is too important to leave to just the architects." --Bjarke Ingels, BIG Architects "Who knew urban studies could be so riveting? Geoff Manaugh excels at finding new, illicit, and fresh angles on a subject as loved as it is overexposed--the city. In his new book, elegant, perverse, sinuous supervillains maneuver and master the city like parkour champions. I see the TV series already." --Paola Antonelli, MoMA "Reading Geoff Manaugh is like donning night-vision goggles at the edge of a dark forest--you are suddenly aware of, and alive to, a world that was always there but occluded. A Burglar's Guide to the City is a crackerjack intellectual caper." --Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of You May Also Like and Traffic "Geoff Manaugh has provided the reader with an excursion into a new world--part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting." -- Errol Morris, director of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and the Academy Award-winning documentary Fog of War, "Geoff Manaugh has provided the reader with an excursion into a new world-part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting." -Errol Morris, director of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and the Academy Awardwinning documentary Fog of War, Geoff Manaugh has provided the reader with an excursion into a new world--part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting., "Geoff Manaugh has provided the reader with an excursion into a new world--part digital fantasy, part reality at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape design, and pure ideas. Like the blog, the book is personal, idiosyncratic, and, best of all, incredibly interesting." -- Errol Morris, director of Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and the Academy Award-winning documentary Fog of War