How to Make a Subway Map with John Tauranac
Hear from an author and map designer who has been creating maps of the NYC subway, officially and unofficially, for over forty years!
He’s not the hero New Orleans asked for, but if you ask any of his followers (on Instagram or
Walking with my dad in Central Park last week, I was saddened to discover that I had lost a cast-iron
As the story goes, there’s a famous job interview question first used by Microsoft: “Why are manhole covers round?
New York City is covered in hundreds of manholes that we pass every day without taking more than a second
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection oversees the city’s massive sewer system, employing about 6,000 people. This small
While sewers were once directly monitored way back, leading to fun maps about the various smells in NYC, things are
New Yorkers complain about a lot of stuff. A little while back we showed a 311 map by the Furman
Just beneath the surface of Paris lies an extensive network of tunnels and caves that compose the 2,400 kilometers
Manhole covers were once a part of a town’s civic pride, with foundries and local authorities placing their stamp
“The underground galleries, organs of the large city, would function like those of the human body, without revealing themselves to
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