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The Image of the City

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Lynch argues that for any given city, a corresponding set of mental images exist in the minds of the people who experience that city. Contributing to those images are five qualities which Lynch identifies as Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes, and Landmarks.
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and environmental behavior as well as a generation of researchers working within them. Researchers that include
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At least one aspect of them is unique or memorable in the context they exist
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Offers the person in them multiple perspectives of the other core elements
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on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make
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These are buildings, signs, stores, mountains, public art
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Kevin Lynch
Urban Planning
Architecture
The MIT Press
ISBN
0-262-62001-4
urban theorist
Kevin Lynch
Boston
Jersey City
Los Angeles
mental maps
streets
sidewalks
railroads
walls
curbstone
overpasses
Districts
foci
Landmarks
the sun
environmental psychology
Amos Rapoport
Claire Cooper Marcus
Oscar Newman
William H. Whyte
Kenneth Craik
Donald Appleyard

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