TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynch,Kevin
TI  - The image of the city
SN  - 0262120046
AV  - NA9108 .L9 1996
U1  - 711.4 LYN 23
PY  - 1996///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England
PB  - The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
KW  - City planning
KW  - United States
KW  - sociology theory
KW  - Urban Design and Planning
KW  - landscape architecture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-186) and index
N2  - 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, the author, 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 wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form
ER  -