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A Burglar's Guide to the City

Release on 2016-04-052016-04-05 by Geoff Manaugh
A Burglar's Guide to the City

Author: Geoff Manaugh

Publisher: Macmillan

ISBN: 9780374117269

Category: Architecture

Page: 305

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The city seen from a unique point of view: those who want to break in and loot its treasures At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked locks—and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and second-guessed. Never again will readers enter a bank without imagining the vault geometry, or visit a museum without plotting ways to bring their favorite painting home with them. From how to pick locks (and the tools required) to how to case a bank on the edge of town, readers will learn to spot the vulnerabilities, blind spots, and unseen openings that surround us all the time. This simultaneously allows us to view the city—from specific buildings and individual rooms to whole neighborhoods—through the privileged eyes of FBI investigating agents and security consultants, people dedicated both to solving and to preempting these attempts at devious entry. Full of absurd and marvelous stories of heists and capers, and offering a kind of criminal X-ray of the built environment, A Burglar's Guide to the City includes its own twist: the realization, hidden in its final chapter, that all along the book has been laying out the relevant details for plotting the perfect robbery, an ambitious and real proposal for robbing a bank in New York City.
Architecture
A Burglar's Guide to the City
Language: en
Pages: 305

A Burglar's Guide to the City

Authors: Geoff Manaugh
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-05 - Publisher: Macmillan

The city seen from a unique point of view: those who want to break in and loot its treasures At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both
A Burglar's Guide to the City
Language: en
Pages: 304

A Burglar's Guide to the City

Authors: Geoff Manaugh
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-05 - Publisher: FSG Originals

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the
Alarm
Language: en
Pages: 98

Alarm

Authors: Alice Bennett
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Alarms are alarming. They wake us up, demand our attention and force us to attend to things we've preferred to ignore. But alarms also allow us to feel secure, to sleep and to
Play Among Books
Language: en
Pages: 528

Play Among Books

Authors: Miro Roman, Alice _ch3n81
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-06 - Publisher: Birkhäuser

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a
Punctuations
Language: en
Pages: 224

Punctuations

Authors: Michael J. Shapiro
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-22 - Publisher: Duke University Press

In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation—conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility—opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity

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