March 31, 2003

DC Metro Blog Map

Available here. You can find me at the Silver Spring station.

Chuck Tryon notes a similar page for Atlanta area blogs, based on their MARTA system. It's an interesting trope--no doubt there are other examples around. People do tend to identify with their municipal icons, the most famous instance probably being the London Underground sign, which--I learned a year or two back--is actually a schematized representation of urban geography (the horizontal line is the Thames bisecting the city).

Anyway.

More thought association: Disused Stations on the London Underground. (Came across this one a while back and found it oddly compelling. In the same vein as the Abandoned Missile Base Tour.)

Posted by mgk at March 31, 2003 08:21 PM
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Finally got a chance to look at the "Disused Underground Station" and "Abandoned Missile Base" sites. I like this notion of the web as archive, and these two sites (however intentionally) remind me of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. Both sites have an eccentricity that I find appealing, and I was able to use them as examples for my students to consider in helping them to develop their hypertext projects.

Posted by: chuck at April 9, 2003 11:07 AM | Link to Comment

Mishka rules !

Posted by: Mishka at September 23, 2003 11:58 AM | Link to Comment

Boris rules !

Posted by: Boris at October 1, 2003 02:50 PM | Link to Comment
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