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Kevin Andrew Lynch (January 7, 1918 – April 25, 1984) was an American urban planner and author. He is known for his work on the perceptual form of urban environments and was an early proponent of mental mapping.
A classic book on how people perceive and remember cities, based on surveys and interviews in three American cities. Learn about Lynch's elements of imageability, his vision of urban design and planning, and his legacy in the field.
The Image of the City is a 1960 book by American urban theorist Kevin Lynch. The book is the result of a five-year study of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make mental maps.
- Kevin A. Lynch
- 1960
- Paths. Lynch describes paths as the "channels along which the observer customarily, occasionally, or potentially moves." These channels may be streets, boulevards, and avenues, as well as waterways, railroads, or any other means used for moving through the cities.
- Edges. Edges are linear breaks in continuity, barriers, more or less penetrable, that can close one region off from another, or join them together. They can be walls, water bodies, railroads, etc.
- Districts. Districts are determined by their two-dimensional extent and are a very common formal division of city areas. These sections are used in many cities and are defined by geographical region but also by one or more common, identifying characters.
- Nodes. Junctions, a crossing or convergence of paths, and moments of shift from one structure to another are some of the examples of city nodes cited by Lynch.
May 3, 1984 · Kevin Andrew Lynch, writer, scholar and urban theorist, died of a heart attack April 25 at his home in Gay Head on Martha's Vineyard. He was 66 years old. Mr. Lynch had been...
Kevin Andrew Lynch was an American urban planner and author. His most influential books include The Image of the City (1960) and What Time is This Place? (1972). Lynch studied at Yale University, Taliesin (studio) under Frank Lloyd Wright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and received a Bachelor's degree in city planning from MIT in 1947. [1] .
Kevin Lynch, born in 1918, was a significant contributor to city planning and city design in the twentieth century. Kevin Andrew Lynch was educated at Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and most notably, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
