Transit Maps of the World: Every Urban Train Map on Earth

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Sin duda lo que más me llamó la atención de esta colorida edición es la colección misma de mapas, es en ella que encontramos el mayor valor de esta extenuante labor editorial. El fenómeno de los sistemas de transporte masivo está en franca expansión y en particular en las ciudades de asía. I’ve come across this blog a couple of months ago, and have been lurking ever since. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at designing a trasit diagram, and having gotten some free time, I decided to redesign the S-Train diagram for Brussels. So here it is, my very first finished(ish) transit diagram. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of mass transit-including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Transit Maps is the graphic designer's new bible, the transport enthusiast's dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who's ever traveled in a city.

I might've appreciated more Edward Tufte-like analysis of how much data is being conveyed by the presence [or absence] of ink, but this was still an incredible book to find. If you travel like the locals, like maps, or pay attention to graphic design, have yourself a gander at Mark Ovenden's fine work. It’s not quite clear who added the hand drawn elements to the map: the O&CB was a privately-run company, but the base map was drawn by city engineers. Text that reads “Exhibit No. 7” down the bottom right suggests that this is one of a series of maps, either about the streetcar system, or the city as a whole. A report to City Council? One thing is certain: the draftsmanship is meticulous in its execution, and the lettering used is superb! A great first effort here from Elliot! I’d say that its arguably more successful that the official SNCB/NMBS diagram, which is a pretty staid and old-fashioned thing. However, while the official diagram shows all the other rail modes in the greater Brussels area, Elliot’s version only shows the S-Train lines. This makes the diagram much cleaner, though perhaps at the expense of understanding how it fits into the complete transit picture. Our final word: Decorative and evocative; it does a good job of painting the county in the most positive light. A fabulous collection. These maps are almost works of art, and can kindle a remembrance of a past trip or a dream of a future journey.”urn:lcp:transitmapsofwor0000oven:epub:ac038325-bd7b-4ec3-bb10-aff3b478eb64 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier transitmapsofwor0000oven Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0107tn25 Invoice 2089 Isbn 9780143112655 Existen siempre ángulos diferentes de acercamiento para el estudio del fenómeno que son las grandes ciudades, la comprensión de las soluciones urbanas que cada nación adopta sirven siempre como referencia y aprendizaje.

While seeming like a straightforward collection of transit maps for systems throughout the planet, this book is a broader look at the art of designing maps (& transit systems) for optimal wayfinding. The colorful assembly of squiggly lines into an aid for navigating [mostly] rail systems - in this book - is more than an exercise in aesthetics or accurate displays of a select topography. The sort of book you couldn’t imagine you needed until you got it and now you can’t imagine how you could do without it . . . It’s fantastic!” And finally, a bit of whimsy: the locations where the light rail lines cross the FrontRunner lines are vertically accurate (i.e., the diagram properly shows which one goes under or over the other), and there’s a little “shadow” on the lower line to give an illusion of depth. Necessary? No. Fun to do? Absolutely. My design rules for this project were pretty simple: use the same canvas size (18″ x 29″, presumably the size of signage frames at UTA stations), the same line colours, the same font family (Whitney Condensed) and show all of the information that’s present on the official diagram.Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth Publishing PDF Online This is the kind of book that would be incredibly fun to browse with kids as part of a world geography investigation–and also the sort of thing that makes great bedtime reading if you want to salt your dreams with the possibility of travel to distant cities. Sheer public transit/map porn!” The book is divided into six zones or sections, the first three of which being the richest. The zones are further divided into cities. Ovenden details histories, from the inception of a city’s urban system to its recent model and also includes proposed plans. These biographies of the cities are filled with beautiful reproductions of the maps as they change, grow, and become standardized. Lccn 2007630172 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300173 Openlibrary_edition Our final word: The bones of something good, but just seems really unfinished. It’s almost as if some layers were turned off accidentally before the file was exported, because it’s hard to rationalise the complete absence of a legend for the map otherwise.