Booth – TRANSIT MAPS 2017 2017

Description

Transit Maps 2017 compiles reviews, reader submissions and historical recreations, assessing transit cartography worldwide with a focus on legibility, hierarchy, typography and intermodal context. Highlights include a Vignelli-style New York diagram, Victoria’s integrated train map, a 1954 Manhattan flow recreation, Helsinki’s admired 1982 metro diagram, creative solutions like Moscow’s oblique oval Central Circle map and a faithful Spoorslag 70 Netherlands recreation, alongside weaker pieces such as a sloppy MTA LaGuardia map. The site showcases strong unofficial redesigns (Minsk, Andrew Lynch’s NYC track map), fantasy maps, an unofficial to-scale German urban-rail map and well-received official pieces (Oklahoma City streetcar, Portland’s TriMet refresh). Historical finds (Mexico City 1910, BOAC and Imperial Airways diagrams, mid-century cutaways) and practical items (large print service, BART visualization, DC Metro rider-impact study) appear alongside regional critiques—praise for Salt Lake City and Denver, condemnation of cluttered designs like Südbadenbus and Puy-de-Dôme. Overall the collection rewards clarity and usability, and faults cluttered, poorly labelled, or poorly integrated maps.