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London's Underground
- The Story of the Tube
Engelsk Hardback
London's Underground
- The Story of the Tube
Engelsk Hardback

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It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Johnston typeface have become design classics, recognised and imitated worldwide.

Opening in 1863, the first sections were operated by steam engines, yet throughout its long history the Tube has been at the forefront of contemporary design, pioneering building techniques, electrical trains and escalators, and business planning. Architects such as Leslie W. Green and Charles Holden developed a distinctively English version of Modernism, and the latest stations for the Jubilee line extension, Overground and Elizabeth line carry this aesthetic forward into the twenty-first century.

In this major work published in association with Transport for London, Tube expert Oliver Green traces the history of the Underground, following its troubles and triumphs, its wartime and peacetime work, and the essential part it has played in shaping London’s economy, geography, tourism and identity. Specially commissioned photography by Benjamin Graham (UK Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017) brings the story to life in vivid portraits of London Underground’s stations, tunnels and trains.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780711289055
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0711289050
Udg. Dato:
26 okt 2023
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
288mm
Højde:
262mm
Forlag:
Quarto Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
26 okt 2023
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