The Image of the City

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MIT Press, 15 giu 1964 - 202 pagine
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form.

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

 

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Recensione dell'utente  - Constantine Ronquillo - Goodreads

my mentor stressed out that I should read this Kevin Lynch piece, and that this will help mould our thought process to the better, turned out she's right. A must read for urbanists and architects. I still recommend Delirius New York by Rem Koolhaas... Leggi recensione completa

Review: The Image of the City

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While the case studies can be a bit dry at times the first couple of chapters should be on everybody's reading list. Leggi recensione completa

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Sommario

The Image of the Environment
1
Three Cities
14
The City Image and Its Elements
46
City Form
91
VA New Scale
118
B The Use of the Method
140
с Two Examples of Analysis
160
Bibliography
182
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Informazioni sull'autore (1964)

Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin and later obtained a Bachelor of City Planning degree from MIT. After a long and distinguished career on the faculty of the MIT School of Architecture and Urban Planning, he was named Professor Emeritus of City Planning.

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TitoloThe Image of the City
Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series
AutoreKevin Lynch
Edizioneillustrata, ristampa
EditoreMIT Press, 1964
ISBN0262620014, 9780262620017
Lunghezza202 pagine
  
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