A gradual refinement The steel rail is an artifact whose form has been carefully optimized. This gradual refinement of the design was done not by a single brilliant engineer but by more than a century of industrial evolution. The rail was never meant to be an object of beauty, but its cross section has all the elegance of fine typography. Brian Hayes, Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape elegancetypographytransportationevolutionchange
Cityspace series A Gallery by Emily Garfield www.emilygarfield.com Primary series for imaginary map drawings, spanning 2008-present and using various materials and techniques. Tiny roads that lead nowhere (Cityspace #163)Aqua city (Cityspace #169)Branching networks (Cityspace #178) Urban form and grainIsometry mapsgeometrycities