The Image of the City
| Type of publication: | Book |
| Citation: | lynch_60_the |
| Year: | 1960 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| ISBN: | 0-262-12001-4 |
| Userfields: | date-added={2012-09-03 15:47:30 +0200}, date-modified={2012-09-03 15:47:30 +0200}, notes={- inhabitants image of the city (examples Boston, New Jersey, Los Angeles) - key elements: paths, edges, nodes, districts, landmarks - the \"beef\" is contained in chapter III while I and II are quite boring (at least if you dont know the cities well) - also methodologic issues discussed in appendix B Some quotes: \"Paths are the channels along which the observer customarily, occasionally, or potentially moves. They may be streets, walkways, transit lines, canal, railroads. For many people, these are the predominant elements in their image. People observe the city while moving through it, and along these paths the other environmental elements are arranged and related.\" (K. Lynch \"The Image of the City\", p. 47; Tue Oct 14 2003) \"For most people interviewed, paths were the predominant city elements, altough their importance varied according to the degree of familiarity with the city. ... Subjects who knew the city better had usually mastered part of the path structure; these people thought more in terms of specific paths and their interrelationships. ...\" (K. Lynch \"The Image of the City\", p. 47; Tue Oct 14 2003) \"Special facade characteristics were also important for path identity. ... were distinctive partly because of the building facades that line them.\" (K. Lynch \"The Image of the City\", p. 47; Tue Oct 14 2003) \"The paths, the network of habitual or potential lines of movement throughthe urban complex, are the most potent means by which the whole can be ordered.\" (K. Lynch \"The Image of the City\", p. 47; Tue Oct 14 2003) \"This leads to what might be called a visual hierarchy of the streets and ways, analogous to the familiar recommendation of a functional hierarchy: a sensuous singling out of the key channels and their unification as continuous perceptual elements. This is the skeleton of the city image.\" (K. Lynch \"The Image of the City\", p. 47; Tue Oct 14 2003)}, project={fremdliteratur}, registry={U20}, state={read, only skimmed the appendix, fell asleep quite often}, |
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