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Harry Beck's 1933 diagram of the London Underground threw geography away. Stations sit at even gaps. Lines run only across, down, or on a diagonal. A rider can follow a route faster because the drawing refuses to be a picture of the streets above it.

The Tube map works because it stopped pretending to be the city.

Harry Beck's Tube map · London Transport Museum · 1933 · Factapp