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The Image of the City

By Kevin Lynch

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| Paperback | 9780262620017

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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--Continue

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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  • This book literally changes the way you look at cities. It's main argument is delivered in a small number of pages (which is good) but the additional material in the back nicely complements it. I loved the little sketches in the margins that illustrated concepts in the main text and the many maps th ... (continue)

    This book literally changes the way you look at cities. It's main argument is delivered in a small number of pages (which is good) but the additional material in the back nicely complements it. I loved the little sketches in the margins that illustrated concepts in the main text and the many maps that illustrate how the "method" is applied.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 202 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0262620014
  • ISBN-13: 9780262620017
  • Publisher: The MIT Press
  • Pub date: Jun 15, 1960
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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