Kevin Lynch Image of City City design is

Kevin Lynch –Image of City

“City design is therefore a temporal art, but it can rarely use the controlled and Limited sequences of other temporal arts like music. "

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Image of City …make informations about mentally human experience.

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These five elements can be analyzed by three components which are identity, structure, and meaning.

" They can have little sense of what a setting can mean in terms of daily delight, or as a continuous anchor for their lives, or as an extension of the meaningfulness and richness of the world. "

Paths: the streets, side walks, trails, and other channels which people can travel. Potentially move points. It is important because people observe city while moving.

Edges: perceived boundaries such as walls, buildings, and shorelines. Generally linear elements, arranged and related with boundaries.

Districts: large sections which effect of city identity or character.

Nodes: focal points, intersections. Strategic spots in city which observer can enter. Symbolic importance of city include in here. They can called as a cores.

Landmarks: readily identifiable objects which serve external reference points. For example: building, sign, store, mountain.

Experience create image. Lynch thought that, nothing can experienced by itself. Relation of surroundings, memory of past experiences and past experiences push us to see the world utterly different.

• https: //www. youtube. com/watch ? v=y. M 7 QYvyv. Cuc please stop slide show and watch video. Purpose of five elements for Lynch was a improve legibility of city. Visually grasped as a harmony of city with symbols, districts, landmarks, pathways should be reveal easily.

Imageability

Mental mapping - Urban planing

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