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"Ovenden does what no other design history book has ever done. Transit Maps of the World is a must-have"
-The New York Times Book Review
"Fantastic"
-LA Times
"The perfect book"
-USA Today
"pure catnip"
-William Grimes, The New York Times
"This book is the stuff that dreams are made of"
-Newsday
"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"
-Seattle Times
"Impossibly nerdy and thoroughly compelling"
-Kansas City Star
"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!"
-Boingboing.com
"Fascinating"
-Peter Greenberg, National Public Radio
"Even if you are not a "map person" this book makes it so easy to experience the unique perspective of rail-based transit. Artistically a treat with its interesting colors, shapes and design; it's a coffee table essential. Ovenden brings a unique perspective to maps and to travel in general. Transit Maps of the World is a must-read for the literary traveller"
-Literary Traveller.com
"A vibrant tip of the hat to the world's urban train systems"
-National Geographic Intelligent Traveller
"...look no further for the next must-have book"
-Very Short List
"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!"
-Robert Elms, BBC London
"Like a Condé Nast Traveler magazine for jetsetters with subterranean tendencies."
-Metro
"Delightful."
-The Guardian, London
"A beautifully illustrated study of the plans that help passengers navigate the world's metropolitan railway systems."
-The Times, London
"An object lesson in information design."
-Wallpaper
-The New York Times Book Review
"Fantastic"
-LA Times
"The perfect book"
-USA Today
"pure catnip"
-William Grimes, The New York Times
"This book is the stuff that dreams are made of"
-Newsday
"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"
-Seattle Times
"Impossibly nerdy and thoroughly compelling"
-Kansas City Star
"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!"
-Boingboing.com
"Fascinating"
-Peter Greenberg, National Public Radio
"Even if you are not a "map person" this book makes it so easy to experience the unique perspective of rail-based transit. Artistically a treat with its interesting colors, shapes and design; it's a coffee table essential. Ovenden brings a unique perspective to maps and to travel in general. Transit Maps of the World is a must-read for the literary traveller"
-Literary Traveller.com
"A vibrant tip of the hat to the world's urban train systems"
-National Geographic Intelligent Traveller
"...look no further for the next must-have book"
-Very Short List
"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!"
-Robert Elms, BBC London
"Like a Condé Nast Traveler magazine for jetsetters with subterranean tendencies."
-Metro
"Delightful."
-The Guardian, London
"A beautifully illustrated study of the plans that help passengers navigate the world's metropolitan railway systems."
-The Times, London
"An object lesson in information design."
-Wallpaper
Product Description
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.
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U Urban-transit maps echo the prevailing social and political trends of the societies they emanate from, but Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn maps perhaps more than others give us a flavor of that city's unique life. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
U Urban-transit maps echo the prevailing social and political trends of the societies they emanate from, but Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn maps perhaps more than others give us a flavor of that city's unique life. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Beck and all,
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This review is from: Transit Maps of the World (Paperback)
A timely update to the first edition in 2003 with a new Zone 6 listing all the latest and proposed subway systems around the world. The extra Zone now includes hybrids like tram-trains, monorail or light rail and they all need maps. The other five Zones in the original have had their contents revised also.I think the beauty of the book is in looking at the way various transit companies have approached the problem of communicating (sometimes complex) information in a simple way for passengers yet each map has its unique points. The book's authors rightly trace the origins of the modern designed transit map to London Transport's Harry Beck. His genius was to discard the geographic location of stations and have route lines as either vertical, horizontal or at forty-five degrees. It's amazing to see how many maps of the dozens in the book still follow this general principal. However, creating a map that might look graphically stunning is not always enough. New York's MTA got Massimo Vignelli to design their map and it looks a visual treat but passengers weren't impressed and found it confusing so the MTA revised it. Vignelli's 1979 map and the latest 2007 MTA one are shown together on a spread in the book, two maps with the same information yet looking so different. This update has a few more train and station photos to fill the space that was frequently left blank in the first edition and there is a nice touch with a spread near the back that includes some fantasy maps. If I have a fault with the book it is that in the new Zone 6 section many of the maps are so small that I don't think they were worth including. I thinks it's worth pointing out that Transit Maps is not designed as a reference guide for travelers to cities around the world but as a celebration of the beauty that is inherent in these colorful diagrams.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Mindblowingly great,
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Simply put the whole package is wonderful. The map quality, layout and concept are all A+. The writeups are just the right tone and length for a coffee table style book. For trainspotters and geographers, this is hours of delight. Not sure about the rest of you but would love to hear your opinions on this well-put together book.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Geared towards map lovers!,
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This book is a disappointment for those fascinated with transit or urban development.It presents metro maps from dozens of cities on the five continents . . . at a scale that allows them to be perceived as graphical objects but not as representations of actual cities. Quite systematically, (very) short discussions are provided in each case of the history of the local transit system and of the graphical evolution of its representation. The author's preference, however, is clearly with the latter topic and the book is not really worthwhile for city or transit lovers.
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