Mind the Gap the Subway Like You’Ve Never Seen Before

Mind the Gap The subway like you’ve never seen before

The Stockholm metro is considered to be “the longest museum in the world”, while the London Underground was used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War. These days, a subway is an integral part of a city’s heritage and a key feature of the urban landscape. Used by billions of passengers a year, subways are full of history and art, and hold many surprises, far from their stereotypical connotations of shadiness and unplea- santness. This book is a tour of the most fascinating aspects of the world’s subways, viewed through the filters of urban planning, ethnology, art, and history. Your next subway ride won’t feel quite the same.

THE AUTHOR Guillaume Bara After training as a journalist, Guillaume Bara worked for the major French daily newspapers Libération and L’Humanité, before becoming a copy editor SELLING POINTS for the weekly cultural magazines Télérama and Madame Figaro. Today he spends his time • An original approach writing and is the author of several books • Surprising and amazing for French publishers such as Atlas and Tana. • A universal subject

SPECIFICATIONS Format 250 x 330 mm Number of pages 208 pp Approx. 20,000 words Price 25/30 € Release fall 2016 Rights available all

104 boulevard arago | 75014 paris | france | contact nicolas marçais | +33 1 44 16 92 03 | [email protected] | copyrighteditions.com CONTENTS Toledo, Naples, Italy University, Naples, Italy The metropolitan: Valencia metro station, Valencia, origins Spain Lindauer Allee, Berlin, Germany • London: the world’s first Paracelsiusbad, Berlin, Germany subway Westfriedhof, Munich, Germany • Paris, or the invention of the St. Quirin Platz, Munich, Germany modern subway/ Industrial Stadion, Stockholm, Sweden Revolution T-Centralen, Stockholm, Sweden • New York: concentration of M1 Line, Copenhagen, Denmark American subway activity Plac Wilsona, Warsaw, Poland • Buenos Aires: South American pioneer EASTERN EUROPE • 1970s: the subway wins over Zoloti Vorota, Kiev, Ukraine the world Hyllie, Kiev, Ukraine • Today’s subway: language, Line A Stations, Kiev, Ukraine culture and urbanism Vasil Levski Stadium Metro Station, Sofia, Bulgaria Extraordinary Musagenitsa, Sofia, Bulgaria stations: around Tilework in Szent Gellert Square, the world Budapest, Hungary AMERICA Letnany, Prague, Czech Republic Times Square, New York, US Kirovsky Zavod, Saint- Bleeker Street, New York, US Petersburg, Russia City Hall Station, New York, US Kievskaya, Moscow, Russia 18th Street, New York, US Slavyansky Bulvar, Moscow, Russia Line 7 entrance, New York, US Komsomolskaya, Moscow, Russia Rochester Industrial and Rapid Komsomolskaya, Moscow, Russia Transit Railway, New York, US Dostoyevskaya, Moscow, Russia 7 stations of the Metro line, Pershing Square metro station, Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Los Angeles, US Russia (Aviastroitelnaya, Severny O’Hare, Chicago, US Vokzal, Severny Vokzal, Kozya Monroe/State red line, Chicago, Sloboda, Kremlyovskaya, US Ploshchad Tukaya, Sukonnaya Spring Garden, Philadelphia, US Sloboda, Ametyevo, Gorki, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Prospekt Pobedy) Canada Lower Bay, Toronto, Canada MIDDLE EAST, ASIA AND Bayview, Toronto, Canada CENTRAL ASIA Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai WESTERN EUROPE Baikonur, Almaty, Kazakhstan Southwark, London, UK Nizami, Baku, Azerbaijan Westminster, London, UK 29 Stations of the Tashkent Kennington, London, UK subway, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Louvre-Rivoli, Paris, France Tunel, Istanbul, Turkey Abbesses, Paris, France Iidabashi, Tokyo, Japan Cité, Paris, France Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan Concorde, Paris, France Kyoto Station, Kyoto, Japan Bastille, Paris, France Bund Sightseeing tunnel, Montebello, Lille, France Shanghai, China Simonis, Brussels, Belgium Formosa Boulevard Station, Drassanes, Barcelona, Spain Taiwan, Taiwan Norman Foster, Bilbao, Spain Several stations, Pyongyang, Olaias, Lisbon, Portugal North Korea