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Re: 30 years ago - 1972 Vignelli NYC subway map release |
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Posted by renee gil on Thu Aug 9 16:45:16 2012, in response to Re: 30 years ago - 1972 Vignelli NYC subway map release, posted by LA Scott on Thu Aug 9 15:22:45 2012. The specific problem has to do with New York's grid system, which made the 1972 map's inaccuracies too glaring. In London, the non-orthogonal street grid makes the mental relationship between the Kennington Station and the Vauxhall Station (as noted above) vague and flexible. Twenty-five years later in New York, according to the New York Times, people still remember that "to preserve its aesthetics, [the 1972] map put the 50th Street stop on the 7th Ave-Broadway line west of Eighth Avenue, far from where it belonged." |
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