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Nobody likes a parking meter. It is probably the least loved piece of street furniture ever invented, it is universally understood as a device for extracting money from…
Look at any American television, any remote, any cable box, any channel listing. The numbers start at 2.
It is one of those things that is so familiar nobody questions…
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The American national parks of the mid-nineteen-sixties were enormously popular, newly accessible by interstate highway, and run on a philosophy that is now almost unrecognisable. The job of…
There is a specific and very common experience in American shopping: a person takes three garments of the same stated size into a fitting room and finds that they are…
This is one of those differences that nobody notices until they travel, and then cannot stop noticing.
In the United States, up is on. The toggle points to the ceiling…
There is a pattern in American buildings that is so consistent it looks designed, and in a sense it was.
Commercial, public and institutional buildings use lever handles. Houses use…