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''The City Image and its Elements
''The City Image and its Elements " from The Image of the City (1960) Kevin Lynch Editors' Introduction Kevin Lynch (1918-1984), a professor of urban design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the towering figure of twentieth-century urban design. The Image of the City, from which this selection is taken, is the most widely read urban design book of all time. Drawing widely on material from psychology and the humanities, Lynch sought to understand how people perceive urban environments and how design professionals can respond to the deepest human needs. Lynch's rambling, profoundly humane writings weave together a unique blend of theory and practical design suggestions drawn from his voluminous reading in history, anthropology, architecture, art, psychology, literature, and a host of other areas.
''The City Image and its Elements" from The Image of the City (1960) Kevin Lynch Editors' Introduction • Kevin Lynch (1918-1984), a professor of urban design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the towering figure of twentieth-century urban design. The Image of the City, from which this selection is taken, is the
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