The History of the London Underground Map
eBook - ePub

The History of the London Underground Map

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The History of the London Underground Map

About this book

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 artifact, 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Map or Diagram?
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 A Flirtation With the Underworld
  10. Chapter 2 An Unlikely Hero
  11. Chapter 3 Money Makes the Train Go Round
  12. Chapter 4 Things Get Smutty
  13. Chapter 5 Mind the Map
  14. Chapter 6 The Underground Goes Overground (and Falls Off the Map)
  15. Chapter 7 Notice to Quit
  16. Chapter 8 The Twopenny Tube
  17. Chapter 9 Concerning Mr C. T. Yerkes
  18. Chapter 10 The Monster and the Metropolitan
  19. Chapter 11 Bullseyes, Bars and Circles
  20. Chapter 12 By Paying Us Your Pennies
  21. Chapter 13 A Verdant Realm
  22. Chapter 14 Brave New World
  23. Chapter 15 All Change (Please)
  24. Chapter 16 A New Design for an Old Map
  25. Chapter 17 Say It With a Poster
  26. Chapter 18 Design For Life or Design For Strife?
  27. Chapter 19 Blitz
  28. Chapter 20 Life After Pick
  29. Chapter 21 Harry’s War
  30. Chapter 22 A Thermos Flask Reunites ‘Ald’ and ‘Gate’
  31. Chapter 23 Beyond Beck
  32. Chapter 24 Fares Fair in Love and War
  33. Chapter 25 Out of the Ashes
  34. Chapter 26 Breaking Beck’s Rules
  35. Notes
  36. Bibliography
  37. Plates Section