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050 _aNA 9085 .L96 1995
100 _aLynch, Kevin
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245 _aCity sense and city design /
_cKevin Lynch
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bMIT Press,
_cc1995
300 _aix, 853 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c27 cm.
365 _bUSD31.00
500 _aFirst MIT Press paperback edition, 1995
505 _aI. The form of cities -- II. Experiencing Cities -- III. Analysis of visual form -- IV. City Design: Theory -- V. City Design: Education and Practice -- VI. City Design: Projects -- VII. Utopias and Cacotopias.
520 _aThe essays in part I focus on the premises of Lynch's work: his novel reading of large-scale built environments and the notion that the design of an urban landscape should be as meaningful and intimate as the natural landscape. In part II, excerpts from Lynch's travel journals reveal his early ideas on how people perceive and interpret their surroundings—ideas that culminated in his seminal work, The Image of the City. This part of the book also presents Lynch's experiments with children and his assessment of environmental-perception research. The examples of both small-scale and large-scale analysis of visual form in part III are followed by three parts on city design. These include Lynch's more theoretical works on complex planning decisions involving both functional (spatial and structural organization) and normative (how the city works in human terms) approaches, articles discussing the principles that guided Lynch's teaching and practice of city design, and descriptions of Lynch's own projects in the Boston area and elsewhere. The book concludes with essays written late in Lynch's career, fantasy pieces describing utopias and offering new design freedoms and scenarios warning of horrifying "cacotopias."
650 _aCITY PLANNING
650 _aURBAN DESIGN
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