The Image of the City
MIT Press · Print & ebook · June 15, 1964
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- Who it’s for
- Explore how city form shapes the image a place leaves with its residents.
- Themes
- Evaluation of city form, Urban imageability, City planning and design
- Genres
- Urban & Land Use Planning, Cities & Urban Planning, Urban Life
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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.
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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.
Reading the City
Explore how city form shapes the image a place leaves with its residents.
Come here for
- A new lens on what urban form means to city dwellers
- The planner’s challenge of making a city more vivid and memorable
Expect
- Imageability as a guide to evaluating city form
- Studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City
Where it sits
| Urban & Land Use Planning | 93% |
|---|---|
| Cities & Urban Planning | 70% |
| Urban Life | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Modern Architecture (to 1945)
- Urban & Land Use Planning
- Cities & Urban Planning
- Authors
- Kevin Lynch
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- June 15, 1964
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Evaluation of city form · Urban imageability · City planning and design
- Reading lane
- Modern Architecture (to 1945)