Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Subways

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why subways are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on Bluesky
• @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
• 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The world's first Underground (London Transport Museum)
• Farringdon Station (National Transport Trust UK)
• A history of the London Underground (BBC Newsround)
• Tünel -- Istanbul, Turkey (Atlas Obscura)
• World's Second Oldest Metro: Istanbul's Historic Tunnel (Visit.Istanbul)
• ‘Funiculì, Funiculà’: what are the original and English lyrics to the Neapolitan song? (ClassicFM)
• Metro line 1: a line and its history (Paris Metro)
• Budapest M1: Inside continental Europe’s oldest metro network (CNN Travel)
• 14 December 1896: the Glasgow Subway opens to passengers (MoneyWeek.com)
• Boston Subway (American Society Of Civil Engineers)
• History: Uncovering Philly’s First Big Dig (HiddenCityPhila.org)
• Under Your Feet: Chicago's Water, Freight, Subway and Storm Tunnels (University Of Chicago Library)
• Planning: The Decision to Build, 1946-1965 (George Mason University)
• Collection: All about Metro (Greater Greater Washington)
• Celebrating BART at 50: A Critical Link for San Francisco (SFMTA)
• 90 Years Underground: The Story of Moscow’s First Metro Line (Liden & Denz)
• From state secret to city staple: China opens its first subway (TheChinaProject.com)
• Flying without wings: The world’s fastest trains (CNN Travel)
• Shanghai Maglev Train (TravelChinaGuide.com)
• Manhattan’s subterranean Lowline park flatlines (ArchPaper.com)
• The High Line Opened 15 Years Ago. What Lessons Has It Taught Us? (The New York Times)
• 'Underground' Digs Up The Secrets Of Hidden Communities Around The World (NPR)
• Street Art Way Below the Street (The New York Times)
• Safety in the subway: Life inside Kyiv's citywide bomb shelter (Reuters)
• As Thousands Shelter in Stations, Kyiv's Metro Is Still Running Trains (Bloomberg CityLab)
• Building Flood Resilience into the NYC Subway (NYU Wagner School)
• Why the Subway Still Floods in New York After Billions in Renovations (The New York Times)
• NYC's Subway Flooding Isn't A Fluke. It's The Reality For Cities In A Warming World (CapRadio.org)
• Harry Beck's Tube map (Transport For London)
• The Truth About Harry Beck review – the tortuous journey behind the tube map (The Guardian)
• The Truth About Harry Beck play - extension to 5 January 2025 (London Transport Museum)
• Deciphering Mexico City's Metro Icons (Bloomberg CityLab)
• Mexico City’s Metro map uses a different icon for each station. Ours almost did too. (Greater Greater Washington)
• Decoding the Symbolism of Mexico City's Metro Iconography (GeekVibes.Agency)
• How the Thames Tunnel Revealed London’s Class Divide (JStor Daily)
• The Epic Struggle to Tunnel Under the Thames (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Brunel's Thames tunnel (and accidental brothel) becomes new arts space (The Guardian)
• Prostitutes, corpses and ‘vampire shopkeepers’ – the sordid history of Brunel’s tunnel (SouthwarkNews.co.uk)
• Letter From Turkey: The Big Dig (The New Yorker)
• New York Underground: The Secret Subway (PBS American Experience)
• New York City’s first subway was secretive, bold, brief – here’s Alfred Beach’s story (American Society Of Civil Engineers)
• biography of Alfred Beach (Lemelson-MIT)
• The Hyperloop: A 200-Year History of Hype and Failure (The MIT Press Reader)
• The lost train line that used to run to Crystal Palace Park (MyLondon.news)
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Escalators