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Transit Maps of the World by: Mark Ovenden List Price: CDN$ 27.50 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 17.33 You Save: CDN$10.17 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 912 EAN: 9780143112655 ISBN: 0143112651 Label: Penguin Paperbacks Manufacturer: Penguin Paperbacks Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: October 22, 2007 Publisher: Penguin Paperbacks Release Date: October 30, 2007 Studio: Penguin Paperbacks Sales Rank: 16207 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Mindblowingly greatSimply 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. Rating: - Beck and allA 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 ... Read More: |
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