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The Young Urbanists Handbook

making sense of cities

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    • A Handbook for You
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    • Meet the Urbanists: 21st Century
  • What Makes a City
    • Physical Geography
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    • Governance
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  • How to Read a City
    • Cities for People
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      • (New) Traditional Cities
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  • The Great Urbanisation
    • Urbanisation
    • Globalisation
      • Social & Economic Inequalities
      • Populism & Digital Disruption
    • Climate Change
      • Sustainable Cities
      • Lessons from History
  • In My Backyard
    • Living in the City
    • Wayfinding
    • Urban Activism

Category: Cartographers

Books (12-16 yr) Books (16+ yr) Cartographers Global Wayfinding

Transit Maps of the World

BOOK

Mark Ovenden, Penguin Random House, 2015

The skill of boiling down an intertwined web of routes into something that can be followed at ease, often in a rush, and occasionally in dimly lit environments, has given scope for some great designers to shine, and for some creations to attain iconic status. 

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