flaneurban

Neil Freeman, at fakeisthenewreal.org, has analyzed the transport networks of major cities around the world, and has come up with some quite revealing images. When we usually look at transport maps, they’ve often been distorted for graphical reasons (Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map), and belie the scale of the systems, and thereby the scale of the cities themselves. These images vividly show the difference in scale between say, Seoul, Osaka, and London.

London Transport Network

Osaka Transport Network

This shows that Mr. Beck was right when he said “If you’re going underground, why do you need bother about geography? It’s not so important. Connections are the thing.”