05/04: Crowdsourcing the Image of the City

This post is part of a few others on mapping and neighborhood identity. Another look at Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City, today focusing on the research methodology and the maps derived from this research. Lynch and his team sought out 30 people (admittedly mostly professional and definitely not a random sample of citizens)... Continue Reading →

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04/30: Image of the City

One of the first reading assignments I had in architecture was Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City (PDF link to the intro and chapter 4). A few quotes from his introduction explain the focus of his studies. "This book will assert that legibility is crucial in the city setting." How does the general public, or a... Continue Reading →

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