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transitmaps: Historical Map: Abandoned Bus Station, Pripyat, Ukraine A harrowing image from the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, built in the 1970s to house workers for the ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant. Pripyat lies just a few scant kilometres from the plant, and was permanently evacuated within two days of the disaster in 1986.  Within the ruins of the city’s bus station is this surprisingly intact map of services offered within the local region. Pripyat is the fourth station from the top along the right edge of the map, just above the horizontal line that runs through the map. The town of Chernobyl (which is further from the plant than Pripyat) is the next stop to the south along the red route line. (Source: Matt. Create. (Roads Less Traveled)/Flickr)

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Historical Map: Abandoned Bus Station, Pripyat, Ukraine

A harrowing image from the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, built in the 1970s to house workers for the ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant. Pripyat lies just a few scant kilometres from the plant, and was permanently evacuated within two days of the disaster in 1986. 

Within the ruins of the city’s bus station is this surprisingly intact map of services offered within the local region. Pripyat is the fourth station from the top along the right edge of the map, just above the horizontal line that runs through the map. The town of Chernobyl (which is further from the plant than Pripyat) is the next stop to the south along the red route line.

(Source: Matt. Create. (Roads Less Traveled)/Flickr)

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chernikhov: My new URL is actually the architect who designed this: Yakov Chernikhov.I thought about maybe now blogging about Socialist/Soviet architecture. Or maybe green politics. We`ll see;  but I`m fed up of the present.

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My new URL is actually the architect who designed this: Yakov Chernikhov.
I thought about maybe now blogging about Socialist/Soviet architecture. Or maybe green politics. We`ll see;  but I`m fed up of the present.

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transitmaps: Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise: the Berlin Ringbahn Map That’s enough from Boston for a while… let’s head to Berlin to look at this odd little map.  It shows the S41 and S42 S-Bahn lines, which travel clockwise and counter-clockwise, respectively, along the Ringbahn, a 37km (23 mile) loop around Berlin. While the map is packed with information — interchanges with other S- and U-Bahn services, stations with transfers to Deutsche Bahn trains, and estimated travel times between major stations — it just feels a little messy and unfinished to me, and definitely at odds with the precise and minimalist design style one normally associates with German transit maps. (Source: luciwest/Flickr)

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Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise: the Berlin Ringbahn Map

That’s enough from Boston for a while… let’s head to Berlin to look at this odd little map.  It shows the S41 and S42 S-Bahn lines, which travel clockwise and counter-clockwise, respectively, along the Ringbahn, a 37km (23 mile) loop around Berlin.

While the map is packed with information — interchanges with other S- and U-Bahn services, stations with transfers to Deutsche Bahn trains, and estimated travel times between major stations — it just feels a little messy and unfinished to me, and definitely at odds with the precise and minimalist design style one normally associates with German transit maps.

(Source: luciwest/Flickr)

natgeofound: People strolling through a park Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.Photograph by George F. Mobley, National Geographic

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People strolling through a park Finland during a wet May snowstorm, 1968.
Photograph by George F. Mobley, National Geographic

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Paris by Gustav Willeit

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