Geoff Manaugh Reconstructs Our Minds in “A Burglar’s Guide to the City”

If you’ve ever gone through a parkour phase, you’ve probably looked at a building and thought, “I can climb that.” If you’ve ever seen “Ocean’s Eleven,” you’ve probably thought about how cool breaking into a bank vault would be. Geoff Manaugh argues that humans are addicted to parkour videos, heist movies and crime novels because the people who climb buildings, break into them, or destroy them are misusing the architecture that we see around us everyday.