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The Image of the City

By Kevin Lynch

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1960
ISBN
0262620014, 9780262620017
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3054080 bytes)
Pages
194\103
Time added
2017-10-11 00:42:47
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Description

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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