A Burglars Guide to the City

Posted on 21 December 2017 by Geoff Manaugh

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 City is an unexpected and thrilling insight how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried vaults of banks, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city.With the help of FBI Special Agents, reformed bank robbers, private security consultants, the L.A.P.D Air Support Division, and architects past and present, the book dissects the built environment from both sides of the law Whether picking padlocks or climbing the walls of high rise apartments, finding gaps in a museum s surveillance routine or discussing home invasions in ancient Rome, A Burglar s Guide to the City has the tools, the tales, and the x ray vision you need to see architecture as nothing than an obstacle that can be outwitted and undercut.Full of real life heists both spectacular and absurd A Burglar s Guide to the City ensures readers will never enter a bank again without imagining how to loot the vault or walk down the street without planning the perfect getaway. Best Read [ A Burglars Guide to the City ] Author [ Geoff Manaugh ] – kino-fada.fr I m going to save you some time and give you the entire takeaway from this book here Burglars do not use the architectural features of buildings as they were intended, often going through walls, ceilings or floors to gain entry.Instead of creative capers, the of author A Burglar s Guide to the City gives us mundane stories about police ride alongs and interviews he conducted This book would better be titled, My experiences researching a book about burglary A great deal of space, for instance I m going to save you some time and give you the entire takeaway from this book here Burglars do not use the architectural features of buildings as they were intended, often going through walls, ceilings or floors to gain entry.Instead of creative capers, the of author A Burglar s Guide to the City gives us mundane stories about police ride alongs and interviews he conducted This book would better be titled, My...I ve been putting this off because there are two types of reviews that I like to write those where I loved the book and want to sing its praises, and those where I really despised it and can t wait to tear it to pieces When a book is just mediocre I can t get up the energy to bother to say anything.I mean, I pre ordered this book Don t even remember how I came across it, but I read the blurb onAt the core of A Burgl...I really wanted to give this book a higher rating I heard Manaugh interviewed on NPR and was looking forward to the book It needed to be shorter, by at least a 25% If it had been, I would have given it 5 stars The information was delivered well, it just needed to be tighter He should sho... 3.5 stars rounded down.I quite enjoyed A Burglar s Guide to the City It was packed full of interesting information, albeit in a very disorganized manner, and various explorations into the means, tools, and minds of burglars Manaugh not only explores the art of burglary but the architectural structures with all of their vulnerabilities that they burglarize We learn early on that burglary is not theft, but the entering of a walled structure to commit a felonyT o commit burglary you must cro 3.5 stars rounded down.I quite enjoyed A Burgl...Well researched, full of great anecdotes and interesting architectural information As a card carrying nerd, I would have appreciated a bitinformation on the background and origins of the weird spaces and architectural loopholes burglars exploit the history of drywall construction, for example, or how and why tunnel systems are created and how and why they can be forgotten I wanted this to be a monumental volume, a kind of anti Seeing Like a State Seeing like a Radical, Seeing like a Cri Well researched, full of great anecdotes and interesting architectural information As a card carrying nerd, I would have appreciated a bitinformation on the background and origins of the weird spaces and architectural loopholes burglars exploit the history of drywall construction, for example, or how and why tunnel systems are created and how and why they can be forgotten I wanted this to be a monumental volume, a kind of anti Seeing Like a State Seeing like a Radical, Seeing like a Criminal and it s almost there, but not quite Some of that s due to the unavoidable lack of documentary evidence Scott s aided in SLAS by the fact that state agencies track documentation like slugs track slime, which is less true of burglars I d also have w...Um livro curioso em cima de uma boa premissa como um ladr o v uma cidade E entrega exatamente isso, como bandidos usam diferentes partes de constru es para fazer um assalto De fechaduras a cofres, de t neis a sa das de emerg ncia, achei um livro bem legal e inesperado Ele n o romantiza assaltantes, mas explica como precisam pensar de forma diferente para explorar vulnerabilidades e ver a arquitetura de outra forma Em especial, curti a forma como analisou o Die Hard como um dos filmes mais Um livro curioso em cima de uma boa premissa como um ladr o v uma cidade E entreg...I wanted to love this book and thought I was going to from the opening chapter but it meanders The author is weirdly repetitive at times e.g., the author is weirdly repetitive at times and the book can t seem to figure out if it wants to be pop science orphilosophical architecture discussion Regularly swapping between the two means neither ever quite gets fleshed out.That said, I liked a lot of it and it gave me a couple of ideas about how to improve our house s security, so I can t co I wanted to love this book and thought I was going to from the opening chapter but it meanders The author is weirdly repetitive at times e.g., the author is weirdly repetitive at times and the book can t seem to figure out if it wants to be pop science orphilosophical architectur...I loved this book It s a combination between psychological criminological information on burglars and architectural theories elements that allow them to move around the environment It s an awesome combination of theory and practice and covers a lot of things I am directly interested in, as a criminology student I would recomend it to everyone, but especially those with a keen interest in criminology or architecture, becausr it really is a joy to read.Yes it has shortcomings, most n...Long essays are probably best suited to magazines, except for the fact that there really aren t magazines any longform articles aren t great for the short attention span of the net, and they certainly aren t very good when stretched out to book length Here we have a case of the latter.An intriguing premise that there is an alternate way to contextualize our habitat, through the eyes of the burglar, the intruder, the outsider gets any reader right into the thick of the discussionArch Long essays are probably best suited to magazines, except for the fact that there really aren t magazines any longform articles aren t great for the short attention span of the net, and they certainly aren t very good when stretched out to book length Here we have a case of t...Manaugh looks at architecture and the central role it plays in the crime of burglary The book begins and ends with the 19th century New York superburglar George Leonidas Leslie, who used his training as an architect to figure out new and unexpected ways to gain entry to building There were parts of this book that I found completely fascinating, and it made me look at our own efforts at home security differently However, Manaugh has a tendency towards repetition He s very fond of lists for e Manaugh looks at architecture and the central role it plays in the crime of burglary The book begins and ends with the 19th century New York superburglar George Leonidas Leslie, who used his training as an architect to figure out new and unexpected ways to gain entry to building There were parts of this book that I found completely fascinating, and it made me look at our own efforts at home security differently However, Manaugh has a tendency towards repetition He s very fond of lists for exam...

21 December 2017

Geoff Manaugh