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Aren’t those Art Deco Mail-delivery systems beautiful?
As for the government threatening building workers & companies…
I think my brain hurts as to how someone could deliberately sabotage much-needed employment & useful work in such times as these
The Urbanist digital map may have been a intellectual design challenge but surely it’s now a commercial opportunity to adapt it to other systems. London has many ‘mapping’ debates that need this.
The MTA / Work&Co video was very impressive and the vision is great, but although admittedly a beta I think it will need quite a lot more work to become a usable tool – it certainly needs to be ported to a phone / tablet App with the static elements – underlying street map and subway network overlay – stored locally on the device, as the performance at present isn’t too good, even on a very fast broadband connection.
A more ambitious vision than TfL’s (equally beta) “TfL Go” app, and a London version would be welcome – or maybe something for Citymapper to licence or incorporate?
https://map.mta.info if you want to skip the video….
A very interesting and evocative article by Ian Jack. He does not mention Railway Magazine among the publications which sprang up in the late 19th century. Aimed at managers, directors and shareholders, they soon discovered that there was also a significant market among armchair hobbyists and travellers who liked to know more about what they saw on their journeys. Their term for these was “railwayacs” , though I don’t know if they were the first to use it. In a poetic sort of way “railwayac” sits well with “anorak” in more modern parlance.