Metro Resources

The handpicked books and links in the list come in three categories:

By subject (about miscellaneous subway topics)
Geographical (about countries or cities)
General

By Subject

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 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	arcoweb.com.br	Artistic entrance of Cardeal Arcoverde station (In Portuguese)
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	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.
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
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
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.
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.
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	u-bahn-hamburg.com	U-Bahn history and architecture and more
Hamburg	hamburger-untergrundbahn.de	Independent website with station photos (In German)
Hamburg	Hochbahn 2008.	Stationen Hamburger Architektur. Metro station architecture (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.
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	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	metrorama.free.fr	Panorama images of stations
Paris	navily.net	Extensive website about many aspects of Paris's transport (In French)
Paris	planetepixel.com	The nicest stations in panorama images
Paris	metro-paris.net	Comprehensive website in English
Paris	metro-pole.net	Historic maps and much more (In French)
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	angrenost.cz	Unofficial metro website
Prague	metroweb.cz	Unofficial metro website
Prague	magtypo.cz	Prague Underground. TYPO Magazine 8 (2003).
Rio de Janeiro	arcoweb.com.br	Artistic entrance of Cardeal Arcoverde station (In Portuguese)
Stockholm	knuttz.net	Photo gallery of Stockholm's cave stations.
Stockholm	web.comhem.se	Art in the Stockholm Metro. Stockholm SL 2001. 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	transit.toronto.on.ca	An enthusiast-run site with lots of resources
Toronto	transit.toronto.on.ca	An Essay on Original Subway Station Design
Toronto	poslfit.com	Toronto Subway Station Tiles. Colours and Fonts.
Toronto	ttcrider.ca	Fan page.
Vienna	homepage.univie.ac.at	About the U-Bahn (In German)
Vienna	Hewson, Elisabeth	Zeitmaschine U-Bahn: Eine Reise durch Jahrtausende. Wiener Stadtwerke 1994. (In German)
Vienna	Hewson, Elisabeth	Zeitmaschine U-Bahn: Eine Reise durch Jahrtausende. Wiener Stadtwerke 1994. (In German)
Washington	Washington MATA 2001.	Metro at 25: Celebrating the Past, Building the Future.
Washington	orenstransitpage.com	Metros of Washington and some other US and world cities

General

cityrailtransit.com	Neat website about a couple of metro systems
cityrailtransit.com	A line-based list of the world's metro systems from 1863 to 1935
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)
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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