Oliver Green: London's Underground, Gebunden
London's Underground
- The Story of the Tube
- Fotos:
- Benjamin Graham
- Verlag:
- Quarto, 10/2023
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780711289055
- Artikelnummer:
- 11612444
- Umfang:
- 288 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- colour photos
- Gewicht:
- 1816 g
- Maße:
- 286 x 257 mm
- Stärke:
- 32 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 26.10.2023
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Johnston typeface have become design classics, recognised and imitated worldwide.
Opening in 1863, the first sections were operated by steam engines, yet throughout its long history the Tube has been at the forefront of contemporary design, pioneering building techniques, electrical trains and escalators, and business planning. Architects such as Leslie W. Green and Charles Holden developed a distinctively English version of Modernism, and the latest stations for the Jubilee line extension, Overground and Elizabeth line carry this aesthetic forward into the twenty-first century.
In this major work published in association with Transport for London, Tube expert Oliver Green traces the history of the Underground, following its troubles and triumphs, its wartime and peacetime work, and the essential part it has played in shaping London's economy, geography, tourism and identity. Specially commissioned photography by Benjamin Graham (UK Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017) brings the story to life in vivid portraits of London Underground'sstations, tunnels and trains.
Biografie (Benjamin Graham)
Benjamin Graham (1894 - 1976) ist einer der Veteranen der Wall Street und gilt als Vater der modernen Wertpapieranalyse. Er war Vorbild für Investment-Legenden wie Warren Buffett, Mario Gabelli, John Neff, Michael Price und John Bogle. Seine Jugend verbrachte Benjamin Graham in New York City. Er hat an der Columbia University studiert, wo ihm zu Ehren ein Lehrstuhl "Graham/Dodd Chair" getauft wurde.§Graham, geboren in London als Benjamin Grossbaum, wuchs in New York der Jahrhundertwende auf. Der frühe Verlust des Vaters, die strengen Schulen New York Citys, Farm- und Fabrikarbeit, das begehrte Stipendium der Columbia University all das hat den Selfmademan geprägt.
