Entrée principale:

Ovenden, Mark, 1963- author.

Titre et auteur:

Transit maps of the world / Mark Ovenden ; edited by Mike Ashworth.

Édition:

Second revised and expanded edition.

Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2007.

Description:

144 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (chiefly colour) ; 25 x 28 cm

Série(s):

Largo memorial: Francis Hefner

Notes:
"Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the history of mass transit-including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Transit Maps is the graphic designer's new bible, the transport enthusiast's dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who's ever traveled in a city."
"The world's first collection of every urban train map on earth."--Cover.
Bibliography : page 142. - Includes index.
How to use this book / Mike Ashworth -- Forward / Hans Rat -- Introduction: early railroads -- Introduction: urban rail transport -- Introduction: early railroad maps -- Introduction: from maps to diagrams -- Zone 1: Berlin, Chicago, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris, Tokyo -- Zone 2: Barcelona, Boston, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Lisbon, Mexico City, Montreal, Munich, Osaka, San Francisco, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Washington D.C. -- Zone 3: Amsterdam, Athens, Beijing, Bilbao, Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Delhi, Glasgow, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Los Angeles, Lyon, Nagoya, Newcastle, Oslo, Philadelphia, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Rotterdam, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Taipei, Toronto, Valencia, Vienna -- Zone 4: Atlanta, Baltimore, Bangkok, Cairo, Guangzhou, Kharkiv, Lille, Marseille, Milan, Naples, Newark, Nizhniy Novgorad, Recife, Santiago, Shanghai, Warsaw -- Zone 5: Cologne & Bonn, Cleveland, Dublin, Franfurt, Hannover, Jacksonville, Liverpool, Manchester, Melbourne, Miami, Nuremburg, Pittsburgh, Porto, Rhine-Ruhr, Stuttgart, Sydney, Tunis, Zurich -- Zone 6: Adana-Belgrade, Belo Horizonte-Calgary, Caracas-Daejeon, Dallas-Fukuoka, Genoa-Houston, Incheon-Kobe, Kolkata-Manila, Maracaibo-Nottingham, Novosibirsk-Rennes, Rouen-San Juan, Santo Domingo-Tbilisi, Tehran-Yokohama.

Résumé:

A comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth, including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs.

ISBN:

9780143112655 (paperback)
0143112651 (paperback)

Sujet:

Subways History Maps.
Local transit History Maps.
Railroads History Maps.
Local transit
Railroads
Subways

Classification/genre:

History
Maps
Cartes géographiques.

Vedettes secondaires:

Ashworth, Mike, editor.
Largo memorial: Francis Hefner.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 257449
Cote: BIB 187943
Statut: Disponible