IMAGE OF THE CITY by Kevin Lynch--Lecture 1

Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2021.

Şentürk is a Professor of Architecture at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in Eskişehir, Turkey. For a seminar in architectural theory, he produced this series of drawings—what he calls an “explicator”—to summarize urban designer Kevin Lynch’s key argument. He also produced explicators for other key figures studied in the seminar, including Theodor Adorno, Le Corbusier, Henri Lefebvre, Lewis Mumford, and Georg Simmel. [email protected]. To see these explicators, go to: https.//orgu.academia.edu/LevantŞentürk. Drawings and text © 2021 Levent Şentürk.

The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and …, 2002

Diségno. Biannual Journal of the UID - Unione Italiana per il Disegno Scientific Society. (ISSN: 2533-2899) . Nº. 5, 2019, pp. 209-216.

The Image of the City was published in 1960, but its origins went back a lot farther than might be supposed, and a crucial role was played in them by the impact of his being able to live in the city of Florence for the academic year 1952 to 1953. It was there that many of his intuitions on how to perceive urban form finally crystallized. These were ideas that he had gradually built up since his joining the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a teacher in 1948. He continued to deepen these ideas from 1954 onwards thanks to a research project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation’s Program for Urban Design Research. In general terms, Lynch’s research may be described as the seeking for a method that would allow understanding and analysis of how people perceive the physical form of their city, its character and urban atmosphere, and how they find their bearings within it, live in it and value it. Overall, the aim was to find principles permitting the description of these experiences. These principles were also useful for urban designers in organizing and giving a visible, coherent and clear shape to the surroundings.

This paper is written for a course work of MA Information Design, University of Reading. This paper summarises the contents of Lynch's Image of the City from a view point of how information designers can deal with city planning. Therefore, this paper includes what is wayfinding design as well.

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 Professional Geographer, 1991

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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.

Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, 2015

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