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The History of the London Underground Map (Hardcover)
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The History of the London Underground Map (Hardcover)
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List price R600
Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
You Save R110 (18%)
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Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic
Tube' map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and
most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in
app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of British design
and ingenuity. Hailed by the art and design community as a cultural
artefact, it has also inspired other culturally important pieces of
artwork, and in 2006 was voted second in BBC 2's Great British
Design Test. But it almost didn't make it out of the notepad it was
designed in. The story of how the Underground map evolved is almost
as troubled and fraught with complexities as the transport network
it represents. Mapping the Underground was not for the
faint-hearted - it rapidly became a source of frustration, and in
some cases obsession - often driving its custodians to the point of
distraction. The solution, when eventually found, would not only
revolutionise the movement of people around the city but change the
way we visualise London forever. Caroline Roope's wonderfully
researched book casts the Underground in a new light, placing the
world's most famous transit network and its even more famous map in
its wider historical and cultural context, revealing the people not
just behind the iconic map, but behind the Underground's artistic
and architectural heritage. From pioneers to visionaries,
disruptors to dissenters - the Underground has had them all - as
well as a constant stream of (often disgruntled) passengers. It is
thanks to the legacy of a host of reformers that the Tube and the
diagram that finally provided the key to understanding it, have
endured as masterpieces of both engineering and design.
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