about Kevin Lynch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_A._Lynch
Review by UCSB
http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/62
Short film
Contents
- I: The Image of the Environment
- Legibility
- Building the image
- Structure and Identity
- Imageability
- II: Three Cities
- Boston
- Jersey City
- Los Angeles
- Common Themes
- III: The City Image and Its Elements
- Paths
- Edges
- Districts
- Nodes
- Landmarks
- Element Interrelations
- The Shifting Image
- Image Quality
- IV: City Form
- Designing the Paths
- Design of Other Elements
- From Qualities
- The Sense of the Whole
- Metropolitan Form
- The Process of Design
- V: A New Scale
Appendices
- A: Some References to Orientation
- Types of Reference Systems
- Formation of the Image
- The Role of Form
- Disadvantages of Imageability
- B: The Use of the Method
- The Method as the Basis for Design
- Directions for Future Research
- C: Two Examples of Analysis
- Beacon Hill
- Scollay Square
- Bibliography