Metro Resources
The handpicked books and links in the list come in three categories:
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| Archaeology | Museum of London Archaeology Service 1998. | The Big Dig. Archaeology and the Jubilee Line Extension. | Archaeology | greece-now.org | Underground Battle. The Story of the Tug of War Between Archaeologists and Metro Developers over the Kerameikos Cemetery. 2001. | Archaeology | Dietmar, Carl; Marcus Trier | Mit der U-Bahn in die Römerzeit. Ein Handbuch zu den archäologischen Ausgrabungsstätten rund um den Bau der Nord-Süd-Stadtbahn. KiWi, 2006. (In German) | Archaeology | Hewson, Elisabeth | Zeitmaschine U-Bahn: Eine Reise durch Jahrtausende. Wiener Stadtwerke 1994. (In German) | Archaeology | Trier, Marcus; L. Tempel | Cologne’s North-South Urban Light Railway. Part II – The Archaeology. Tunnel 7/2005. (PDF) | Architecture | denkbahn.de | DenkBahn. Texts and audio guide about station architecture (In German) | Architecture | lowermanhattan.info | What Lies Beneath: The Architecture of the Subway. Article of 2002. | Architecture | Bongiorno, Biagia | Die Bahnhöfe der Berliner Hoch- und Untergrundbahn. Verkehrsdenkmale in Berlin. Petersberg, 2007. A detailed book about 81 metro stations that are preserved historical monuments. (In German) | Architecture | Fernandes, Fátima; Michele Cannatà | The Architecture of the Metro. Works and Projects in the Oporto Metropolitan Area. Civilização Editora, 2006. | Architecture | Hackelsberger, Christoph | U-Bahn-Architektur in München. Prestel 1997. (In German) | Architecture | Rauch, Jürgen | The Architecture of Underground Railway Stations. Krämer 1996. | Art | metrovias.com.ar | Galleries of stations and murals | Art | metrodecaracas.com.ve | Gallery of station photos showing some works of art | Art | metro.net | Los Angeles County Metro Art Department. | Art | metrolisboa.pt | Art in the metro. | Art | art-public.com | Art on the metro. CAID-ACVI-TAAC. | Art | Metropolitano de Lisboa, 1996. | Junction '96. Lisbon Worldwide Conference on Art and Public Transport. | Art | stib.be | When Art Takes the Metro. A journey through the largest underground art gallery in Brussels. stib.be. | Art project | subway-life.com | A curious art project with drawings of passengers of ten metro cities | Art project | photoblog.be | A weblog which collects photos of passengers and stations around the world | Art project | cinematicfilm.com | Hong Kong metro meets Paris metro. A cool experimental video | Art project | Lleó, Mónica | Point of Escape. Nice photos of empty stations (In Spanish) | Arts | Kamenev, Marina | Magic in the Metro. In: Business Week, November 2006. | Arts | Pereira, João Castel Branco | Public Art in Lisbon Underground. Metropolitano de Lisboa, 2000. | Arts | Ström, Marianne | Art Goes Underground - Decor at Subway Stations. In: UNESCO Courier, March 1992. | Arts | Ström, Marianne | Metro-Art in the Metro-Polis. ACR Edition (France) 1996. | Benchmarking | comet-metros.org | Project for benchmarking and best practices of the world's largest metro networks | Design | absence-of-fear.de | Lighting in metro stations (In German) | Design | transit.toronto.on.ca | An Essay on Original Subway Station Design | Design | dougrose.co.uk | London's Underground Edwardian Tile Patterns. | Design | poslfit.com | Toronto Subway Station Tiles. Colours and Fonts. | Design | Landesgewerbeamt Baden-Württemberg 1983, Design Center Stuttgart. | Urbanes Design: Konzepte und Realisationen der Designergruppe Lindinger & Partner. (In German) | Design | Descouturelle, Frédéric et. al. | Le métropolitain d'Hector Guimard. Somogy 2003. (In French) | Design | Garn, Andrew | Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New York City Subway. Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2004. | Design | Garn, Andrew et al. | Online Gallery Talk: Subway Style. | Design | Schiffler, Lothar | Europe's most beautiful metro stations. Photo exhibition of 2003 (In German) | Design | Stookey, Lee | Subway Ceramics: A History and Iconography. 1992. | Graffiti | subwayoutlaws.com | History of subway writing and other aspects of subway graffiti | Graffiti | Cooper, Martha; Henry Chalfant | Subway Art. Thames & Hudson 1984. | History | forgotten-ny.com | Forgotten NY Subways. | History | Washington MATA 2001. | Metro at 25: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future. | History | nycsubway.org | The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment. IRT 1904. | History | Veigl, Christa | Otto Wagners Gesamtkunstwerk Wiener Stadtbahn. (In German) | Logos | mukiryoku.com | Japanese railway and metro operators logo collection | Map design | kickdesign.com | Redesign project of 2004 by Kick Design for New York's subway map | Maps | fakeisthenewreal.org | Maps of 25 metros, presented on the same scale | Maps | radicalcartography.net | North American subways and light rails on the same scale | Maps | tubemap.com | Link collection for worldwide tube, subway and metro maps | Maps | ipodsubwaymaps.com | Downloadable subway maps for the Photo iPod. | Maps | Ovenden, Mark | Metro Maps of the World, 2nd Edition. Capital Transport 2005. | Monorails | monorails.org | Monorail Society describes all 45 transit monorails of the world | Monorails | Krischer, Reinhard | Alweg-Bahn. Technik, Geschichte und Zukunft der legendären Einschienenbahn. Transpress 2003. (In German) | Museums | urbanrail.net | Rapid transit museums around the world | Music | barong.com.br | Submundo. International busking in metros | Passenger rides | en.wikipedia.org | 20 busiest metro systems by annual passenger rides | Photography | 123d.de | 3-D panoramas of metros | Photography | absence-of-fear.de | Artistic photos of metro stations with discerning comments on design details (In German) | Photography | absence-of-fear.de | Photography permits - for which cities they are needed and how to get them (In German) | Photography | news.deviantart.com | Pictures from a Global Subway Photography Contest were sent to NYCTA as a protest against their photography ban | Photos | londonstation.com | Underground stations in hand-coloured photographs | Photos | beeflowers.com | The metro in photos and panorama photos | Photos | transitpics.com | Photos of subway stations | Photos | metrorama.free.fr | Panorama images of stations | Photos | planetepixel.com | The nicest stations in panorama images | Photos | knuttz.net | Photo gallery of Stockholm's cave stations. | Photos | faller_man | T-Bane Stasjon. Flickr. | Photos | Lee, Frank | flee.com Artistic photo essay in black and white | Projects | urbanrail.net | Metros planned or under construction | Projects | railway-technology.com | Metro and railway industry projects | Retro futurism | darkroastedblend.com | Retro-Future: Mind-Boggling Transportation. | Retro futurism | retro-futurismus.de | Retro-Futurismus.de - Ein Rückblick auf die Zukunft von gestern. | Retro futurism | lib.berkeley.edu | Transportation Futuristics. | Rubber tyred | Spinosa, Andrea | Metropolitane: ferro o gomma?. Analysis of rubber-tyred metro systems (scroll down the page to find the link) (In Italian) | Simulator | world-of-subways.com | Realistic simulator software for the subways of New York and Berlin | Typography | magtypo.cz | Prague Underground. TYPO Magazine 8 (2003). | Typography | Berry, John D. | Underground Typography. 23 March 2001. | Visions | stadtkreation.de | Imaginary cities with imaginary metro networks | Visions | lib.berkeley.edu | Transportation Futuristics: Visionary designs in transportation engineering. | Visions | en.wikipedia.org | Vactrains. Metros of the future might be maglev trains in air-less tunnels |
Geographical
Countries
| Germany | Pabst, Martin | U- und S-Bahnfahrzeuge in Deutschland. Geramond 2000. Metro train types (In German) | Germany | Schwandl, Robert | u-bahnen-in-deutschland.de | Italy | metroitaliane.it | Metroitaliane. Website about the Italian metro systems (In Italian) | Japan | mukiryoku.com | Japanese railway and metro operators logo collection | Japan | members.aol.com | Hisakyu's Railway Guide. Metros and railways with station photos and audio files | Russia | metrosoyuza.net | Comprehensive website about all metro systems in the former USSR | Spain | Schwandl, Robert | Metros in Spain. Capital Transport 2001. |
Cities
| Athens | greece-now.org | Underground Battle. The Story of the Tug of War Between Archaeologists and Metro Developers over the Kerameikos Cemetery. 2001. | Baltimore | roadstothefuture.com | Metro Subway. | Berlin | denkbahn.de | DenkBahn. Texts and audio guide about station architecture (In German) | Berlin | Bongiorno, Biagia | Die Bahnhöfe der Berliner Hoch- und Untergrundbahn. Verkehrsdenkmale in Berlin. Petersberg, 2007. A detailed book about 81 metro stations that are preserved historical monuments. (In German) | Berlin | Gympel, Jan | Tunnel mit Tiefgang: Mit der U-Bahn durch Berlin. Elefanten Press 1993. (In German) | Berlin | Klünner, Hans-Werner | S- und U-Bahnarchitektur in Berlin. Senator für Bau- und Wohnungswesen Berlin 1985. Exhibition booklet (In German) | Berlin | Loop, André | untergrundbahn.de A website including photos of all stations. (In German) | Bilbao | metrobilbao.net | Metro Bilbao. Contains a lot of information | Brussels | art-public.com | Art on the metro. CAID-ACVI-TAAC. | Brussels | stib.be | When Art Takes the Metro. A journey through the largest underground art gallery in Brussels. stib.be. | Buenos Aires | metrovias.com.ar | Galleries of stations and murals | Cairo | perso.wanadoo.fr | Metro line 2 and stations | Caracas | metrodecaracas.com.ve | Gallery of station photos showing some works of art | Chicago | chicago-l.org | The 'L'. | Cologne | Dietmar, Carl; Marcus Trier | Mit der U-Bahn in die Römerzeit. Ein Handbuch zu den archäologischen Ausgrabungsstätten rund um den Bau der Nord-Süd-Stadtbahn. KiWi, 2006. (In German) | Cologne | Trier, Marcus; L. Tempel | Cologne’s North-South Urban Light Railway. Part II – The Archaeology. Tunnel 7/2005. (PDF) | Glasgow | spt.co.uk | The subway. | Hamburg | Hochbahn 2008. | Stationen Hamburger Architektur. Metro station architecture (In German) | Hamburg | u-bahn-hamburg.com | U-Bahn history and architecture and more | Hamburg | hamburger-untergrundbahn.de | Independent website with station photos (In German) | Hamburg | Grundmann, Friedhelm; Michael Zapf | Im Wandel der Zeit: Die Bauten der Hamburger Hochbahn neu gesehen von Studierenden der Architektur. HHA 2004. Exhibition booklet about station architecture (In German) | Kazan | k-metro.ruz.net | K-Metro. | Lisbon | metrolisboa.pt | Art in the metro. | Lisbon | Pereira, João Castel Branco | Public Art in Lisbon Underground. Metropolitano de Lisboa, 2000. | London | londonstation.com | Underground stations in hand-coloured photographs | London | dougrose.co.uk | London's Underground Edwardian Tile Patterns. | London | Museum of London Archaeology Service 1998. | The Big Dig. Archaeology and the Jubilee Line Extension. | London | Lee, Frank | flee.com Artistic photo essay in black and white | London | Powell, Kenneth | The Jubilee Line Extension. Laurence King 2000. | London | Taylor, David J. | New Architecture for the Underground: Planning for the Future. Capital Transport 2001. | Los Angeles | metro.net | Los Angeles County Metro Art Department. | Minsk | minsk-metro.net | Website about the metro of Minsk (In Russian) | Montreal | McLauchlin, Matthew | metrodemontreal.com Unofficial, very detailed website about the Métro de Montréal | Moscow | eng.metroway.ru | Interactive Moscow Metro Map. | Moscow | beeflowers.com | The metro in photos and panorama photos | Moscow | Berezin, Valentin | Moscow Metro Photoguide. Planeta 1989. | Moscow | Solouh, Sergei | Metrogiprotrans 70 years. Lebedev Studio. Anniversary edition, PDF, 216 p. (In Russian) | Munich | muenchnerubahn.de | Unofficial website about history, stations, train sets, and operation of Munich's metro | Munich | Hackelsberger, Christoph | U-Bahn-Architektur in München. Prestel 1997. (In German) | New York | nycsubway.org | The New York Subway: Its Construction and Equipment. IRT 1904. | New York | forgotten-ny.com | Forgotten NY Subways. | New York | kickdesign.com | Redesign project of 2004 by Kick Design for New York's subway map | New York | subwaynut.com | New York's and some other subways | New York | lowermanhattan.info | What Lies Beneath: The Architecture of the Subway. Article of 2002. | New York | transitpics.com | Photos of subway stations | New York | transitmuseumeducation.org | Online Gallery Talks. New York Transit Museum. | New York | nycsubway.org | New York's subway and the metros of the world | New York | Blumenthal, Saul | New York City Transit Scenes: Past and Present. | New York | Garn, Andrew | Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New York City Subway. Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2004. | New York | Garn, Andrew et al. | Online Gallery Talk: Subway Style. | New York | Kennedy, Randy | Subwayland. Adventures in the World Beneath New York. St. Martin's Griffin 2004. Witty stories | New York | Stookey, Lee | Subway Ceramics: A History and Iconography. 1992. | Nuremberg | cityverkehr.de | Inofficial website about Nuremberg's U-Bahn and S-Bahn | Oporto | mporto.no.sapo.pt | Unofficial metro website | Oporto | Fernandes, Fátima; Michele Cannatà | The Architecture of the Metro. Works and Projects in the Oporto Metropolitan Area. Civilização Editora, 2006. | Oslo | faller_man | T-Bane Stasjon. Flickr. | Paris | planetepixel.com | The nicest stations in panorama images | Paris | metro-pole.net | Historic maps and much more (In French) | Paris | metrorama.free.fr | Panorama images of stations | Paris | Descouturelle, Frédéric et. al. | Le métropolitain d'Hector Guimard. Somogy 2003. (In French) | Paris | Lamming, Clive | Métro insolite. Parigramme 2005. Interesting guide book (In French) | Paris | Tricoire, Jean | Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. La Vie du Rail 2005. (In French) | Prague | magtypo.cz | Prague Underground. TYPO Magazine 8 (2003). | Prague | angrenost.cz | Unofficial metro website | Prague | metroweb.cz | Unofficial metro website | Samara | samaratrans.info | | Stockholm | knuttz.net | Photo gallery of Stockholm's cave stations. | Stockholm | sl.se | Art in the Stockholm Metro (PDF). Stockholm SL 2008. Free booklet | Stuttgart | Landesgewerbeamt Baden-Württemberg 1983, Design Center Stuttgart. | Urbanes Design: Konzepte und Realisationen der Designergruppe Lindinger & Partner. (In German) | Tokyo | Shaw, Dennis; Hisashi Morokawa | Tokyo Subways. Hoikusha 1992. | Toronto | poslfit.com | Toronto Subway Station Tiles. Colours and Fonts. | Toronto | ttcrider.ca | Fan page. | Toronto | transit.toronto.on.ca | An enthusiast-run site with lots of resources | Toronto | transit.toronto.on.ca | An Essay on Original Subway Station Design | Vienna | Hewson, Elisabeth | Zeitmaschine U-Bahn: Eine Reise durch Jahrtausende. Wiener Stadtwerke 1994. (In German) | Vienna | Prillinger, Horst | The Vienna Metro. Unofficial website | Vienna | Veigl, Christa | Otto Wagners Gesamtkunstwerk Wiener Stadtbahn. (In German) | Washington | orenstransitpage.com | Metros of Washington and some other US and world cities | Washington | Washington MATA 2001. | Metro at 25: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future. |
General
| cityrailtransit.com | Neat website about a couple of metro systems | cityrailtransit.com | A line-based list of the world's metro systems | citytransport.info | A lot of aspects of transportation. Shortcut to the site's hidden main menu. | lrta.org | LRTA. Complete listing of light rail, tramway and metro systems throughout the world | nycsubway.org | New York's subway and metros of the world | railway-technical.com | A book-like resource about rail and metro technology and design | en.wikipedia.org | Wikipedia's metro category | de.wikipedia.org | Wikipedias U-Bahn-Kategorie (In German) | railway-technology.com | Extensive website for the railway industry, including metros | spiegel.de | Mind the Gap. Reportagen aus den U-Bahnen der Welt. Spiegel 2006. (In German) | Bennett, David | Metro. The Story of the Underground Railway. Octopus 2004. Coffee table book about subway construction and design | Fischler, Stan | Subways of the World. MBI 2000. Describes ten subway systems | Garbutt, Paul | World Metro Systems. Capital Transport 1997. | Hinkel, Walter J.; Karl Treiber; Gerhard Valenta; Helmut Liebsch | U-Bahnen gestern, heute, morgen. Schmid 2004. English edition available | Marshall, Alex | Beneath the Metropolis. The Secret Lives of Cities. Robinson 2006. Describes underground infrastructure in a dozen cities. | Schleife, Hans-Werner et al. | Metros der Welt. Geschichte, Technik, Betrieb. Transpress 1992. (In German) | Schwandl, Robert | urbanrail.net The world's metro systems in detail |
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