The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) - Softcover

Kevin Lynch

 
9780262620017: The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series)

Synopsis

The classic work on the evaluation of city form.

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About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

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ISBN 10:  0262120046 ISBN 13:  9780262120043
Publisher: MIT Press, 1960
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