In section one of this program, London’s massive subway system is described in conjunction with the stylized map—the brainchild of an electric circuit diagram designer—that since 1933 has made sense of it. Section two focuses on Ferdinand Porsche’s people’s automobile: the Volkswagen Beetle, an emblem of industrial Modernism supported by Adolf Hitler and adored by drivers on both sides of the Atlantic since the mid-1950s. (20 minutes)

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