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The Image of the City

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kevin LynchSeries:Harvard-Mit Joint Center for Urban StudiesAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1964-06-15Pages:202
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262620017ISBN-10:262620014UPC:9780262620017Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:Urban & Land Use Planning, Buildings, HistoryBook Topic:Public, Commercial & Industrial, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:7.94 x 5.24 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCFRQ03FAR
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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262620017ISBN-10:262620014UPC:9780262620017Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:Urban & Land Use Planning, Buildings, HistoryBook Topic:Public, Commercial & Industrial, Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:7.94 x 5.24 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCFRQ03FAR
Lynch, Kevin: - 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.
Publisher: MIT Press

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