The Image of the City
$86.36
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 June 1964
Summary
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 v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262620017 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262620014 |
| Author: | Kevin Lynch |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 1964 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series |
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“This small and readable book makes one of the most important modern contributions tolarge-scale design theory. David A. Crane Journal of the American Institute of Planners
…a readable, tautly organized, authoritative volume…
* Architectural Forum *This small and readable book makes one of the most important modern contributions to large-scale design theory.
– David A. Crane * Journal of the American Institute of Planners *About The Author
Kevin Lynch
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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