The Image of the City
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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
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.
Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) studied at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright and then graduated from MIT with a Bachelor of City Planning degree. He was awarded Professor Emeritus of City Planning after a long and distinguished career on the faculty of the MIT School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262620017 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262620014 |
| Title | The Image of the City |
| Author | Kevin Lynch |
| Series | Harvard-Mit Joint Center For Urban Studies Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MIT Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1964-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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