MapLab: New York City’s Enduring Subway Map Debate
At the MTA print shop, Patrick McDermott shows off a newly reissued version of Massimo Vignelli’s famed 1972 New York City subway map.
Photographer: Marc A. Hermann/MTA
This week, Bloomberg CityLab’s David Dudley updates readers on the latest turn in the decades-long saga of what might be the world’s most divisive subway map:
The story of Massimo Vignelli’s ill-fated map of the New York subway endures as a kind of parable about the defining values of cartography, and how much fidelity to the truth a mapmaker owes an audience.