What a gorgeous, gorgeous map.
This is central London, taken from the standard A-Z map, but with everything removed apart from the names of streets, stations, and a few major buildings.
You can quite clearly see the river, and a couple of the open spaces around large buildings. Apart from that, though, London is a massive maze of streets, with none of the sense of pre-planning that you find in most American cities (and Milton Keynes!).
And it’s this lack of planning, this organic growth over many centuries, which is why I love London. I still get lost constantly, or deliberately take awkward routes from A to B, just to discover new side streets and new places.
