• John Tauranac (born 1939) writes on New York City history and architecture, teaches the subject and gives tours of the city, and designs city maps and...
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  • Tauranac is a surname which may refer to: John Tauranac (born 1939), American writer Ron Tauranac (1925–2020), British-Australian racing car designer...
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    1979 design was created by the MTA Subway Map Committee, chaired by John Tauranac, which outsourced the graphic design of the map to Michael Hertz Associates...
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  • October 23, 2017. Tauranac 2014, p. 222. Tauranac 2014, p. 223. Bascomb 2004, p. 246. Rasenberger 2009, p. 396. Tauranac 2014, p. 149. Tauranac 2014, p. 212...
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    Citicorp Center in a largely positive light. The historian and writer John Tauranac described the tower as the "most dramatic new skyscraper" in New York...
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    which was also named after a Native American tribe. The historian John Tauranac, which attributed the "Algonquin" name to Case, claimed that the Algonquin...
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    Committee in 1975 to design a new map to replace Vignelli's. The next year John Tauranac was made chair of the committee, which concluded in June 1979 with a...
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  • Schneerson (1962), Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Dynasty[citation needed] John Tauranac (1963), Chief designer of the New York City Subway map of 1979 Josh...
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    able to indicate clearly its relationship to the height of a man." John Tauranac, in a guidebook published in 1978, said that the design was "absolutely...
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    whether 40 Wall Street was ever taller than the Chrysler Building. John Tauranac, who wrote a book about the Empire State Building's history, later stated...
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