Showing posts with label Urbanology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urbanology. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Intertwine
1972, the renowned Italian designer Massimo
Vignelli redesigned George Salomon's New York Subway map, which
persisted until 1979, when superseded by Michael Hertz's design.
It was a marvelous conceptual map, and it was easy to read. It was a tool for navigating the subways, although not one for navigating the city streets. Out with the complicated tangle of geographically accurate train routes. No more messy angles. Instead, train lines would run at 45 and 90 angles only. Each line was represented by a color. Each stop represented by a dot. There was an obvious influence from the London Underground map, originally created by Harry Beck in 1933, however, Vignelli took it one step farther, in creating the now-famous intertwined wiring-diagram map of New York's vastly complicated subway lines.
It was a marvelous conceptual map, and it was easy to read. It was a tool for navigating the subways, although not one for navigating the city streets. Out with the complicated tangle of geographically accurate train routes. No more messy angles. Instead, train lines would run at 45 and 90 angles only. Each line was represented by a color. Each stop represented by a dot. There was an obvious influence from the London Underground map, originally created by Harry Beck in 1933, however, Vignelli took it one step farther, in creating the now-famous intertwined wiring-diagram map of New York's vastly complicated subway lines.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Park and Ride
When a Parking Lot Is So Much More
"For something that occupies such a vast amount of land and is used on a daily basis by so many people, the parking lot should receive more attention than it has. We need to ask: what can a parking lot be?"Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
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