India | Arrival
When people hear you’re going to India, the advice flows if they’ve been before or not. The smells, the traffic, the poverty, don’t brush your teeth with tap water… It can go on endlessly. The first thing that hits you–at the airport–is the smoke. They are harvesting the rice crops around the city, and once … Continue reading
City scale through subways
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 … Continue reading
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