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UK GEOforum is pleased to announce its forthcoming UKGEOforum 2013 Lecture featuring guest speaker:
Mark Ovenden
Author of “Metro Maps of The World”, “Paris Underground, The Maps, Stations, and Design of the Metro”, and “Railway Maps of the World”
Title: “How Beck's diagram re-mapped the modern world”
Marks lecture will cover the following areas
- Rail "diagrams" before 1930
- How Beck brought these ideas together and made his revolutionary Underground map
- What were his principles?
- How quickly was it copied?
- Transit mapping worldwide
- Weird and wonderful transit maps
- Whatever next; moving to PDAs/real time mapping
Time: 18.00 - 19.00, Thursday 24th January 2013 (Doors open at 17.30)
Place: Lecture Hall, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), 12 Great George Street, Parliament Square, London, SW1P 3AD
Location Map
Cost: FREE. This lecture is free of charge and open to all. Non-members of the UKGEOforum are welcome to attend.
For security reasons, registration is required.
Please pre-register by
The RICS bar will be open after the lecture. Please arrive from 17.30 and ensure that you are seated promptly.
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