Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic..
The bicycle, a seemingly simple machine, quickly becomes complicated when it collides with public safety, politics, and the shape of cities.
Jonathan Maskit looks at bicycles as environmental, urban, and everyday objects.
But the Bicycle can only be understood in relation to transit infrastructure and spatial planning.
Bicycles promise safe, low-cost, environmentally-friendly transportation for billions of people.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things