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John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”

John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”

Update: 2023-12-26
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Manhattan writer and cartographer John Tauranac on his first maps of Midtown’s pedestrian passages, a public debate with Massimo Vignelli (“His geography was egregious”), working at a very different MTA (they used to have an aesthetics committee?), the “no improvements” made to the subway map since he chaired the 1979 MTA map committee, guiding Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s helicopter photo surveys of Manhattan, walking every block and learning Illustrator to create his acclaimed 176-page Manhattan tourist guide, how to make a usable bus map, New York’s vanished map stores, and a longitudinal view of the business: “plus ça change, plus c'est la même bull████.” See his work at johntauranac.com


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John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”

John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”

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