The Image Of The City

Author: Kevin Lynch

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Price : $46.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780262620017
Publisher : MIT Press
Imprint : MIT Press
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Weight (g) : 0.227
Publication date : 01 July 1979
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Author : Kevin Lynch
Series : Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series
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Edition : fifteenth printing
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 711.4
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Pages : 208
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Description

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.

Author description

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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