{"id":104,"date":"2007-05-20T01:42:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T08:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/05\/20\/london-underground-harry-becks-map\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T16:18:58","slug":"london-underground-harry-becks-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/05\/20\/london-underground-harry-becks-map\/","title":{"rendered":"London Underground: Harry Beck&#8217;s map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Beck drew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/beckmap1.jpg\" title=\"Harry Beck's map\">this <\/a>iconic 1933 London Underground map, based on his experience with electrical circuit diagrams:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/beckmap1.jpg\" alt=\"Harry Beck's 1933 London Underground map\" height=\"347\" width=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Really beautiful.  Instantly recognizable.  Legible.  And there&#8217;s the Thames for reference; but that&#8217;s the only geographical feature.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/clive.billson\/tubemaps\/1933.html\" title=\"Another view of Harry Beck's map\">Another view<\/a> of the same map.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/assets\/downloads\/colourmap.pdf\" title=\"London Underground map\">current London Underground map<\/a> (.pdf) encodes a lot more information, not as beautifully as Harry&#8217;s I think.<\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/corporate\/projectsandschemes\/communityandeducation\/2443.aspx\" title=\"Harry Beck\">Harry Beck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/09\/09\/nyc-subway-porn\/\">NYC Subway Porn<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Beck drew this iconic 1933 London Underground map, based on his experience with electrical circuit diagrams: Really beautiful. Instantly recognizable. Legible. And there&#8217;s the Thames for reference; but that&#8217;s the only geographical feature. (Another view of the same map.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/05\/20\/london-underground-harry-becks-map\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-1G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}