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The Real Underground

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The map of the London Underground we know and love was designed by Harry Beck in 1933, an electrical engineer he based the map upon the schematic of a circuit diagram.

But was Design’s gain Geography’s loss?

Is our image of London distorted by the Underground map?

Tags: map, tube

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