You can't effect a perfectly accurate map,as Jorge Luis Borges so succinctly told us, without making it the exact same size and shape as the land it portrays. But given the utter uselessness of such an enormous piece of paper (which so frustrated the citizens of the imaginary empire in Borges' story that, and "not without some pitilessness," […]
lively GIFs demonstrate How Subway Maps of Berlin, New York, and Tokyo & London Compare to the Real Geography of Those remarkable Cities is a post from: Open Culture. Follow us on Facebook,Twitter, and Google Plus, and bag our Daily Email. And don't miss our big collections of Free Online Courses,Free Online Movies, Free eBooks, or Free Audio Books,Free Foreign Language Lessons, and MOOCs.
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