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KEVIN ANDREW LYNCH
The Image of the City
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Kevin Lynch defined the ‘’imageability’’ as
that quality in a physical object which gives it a high probability of evoking a strong image in any given obsrever. It is that shape, color or arrangement which facilitates the making of vividly identified, powerfully structured, highly useful mental image of the environment
IMAGEABILITYAbility of physical object = Image
Ability of observer = Meaning
People’s perception of the city is important
- Building the ImageEnvironment suggests Distinctions and Relations The Observer selects, organizes with meaning what he sees
- Structure and Identity Environmental Image contains identity, structure, meaning
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IMAGEABILITY LEGIBILITY or VISIBILITYmight be called
City of Venice, example of higly imageable environment
The concept of the Imageability not necessary connote something fixed, limited,precise, unified, regularly ordered although it may sometimes have the qualities
Consider the need of identity and structure and illustrate the special relevance of the quality
Particular case of complex shifting urban environment
ENVIRONMENT IMAGE
Operation external phisical shape Internal learning process
THESIS
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We are rapidly building a new functional unit, the metropolitan region, but we have yet to grasp that this unit, too, should have its corresponding image.
Suzanne Langer (1953) definition of architecture
‘’It is the total environment made visible’’
Paths
THE CITY IMAGE AND ITS ELEMENTS
The Image of the city is obtained by effect of physical, perceptible objects which are:
EdgesDistrictsNodes Landmarks
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Paths Edges
DistrictsNodes
Landmarks
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ELEMENT INTERRELATIONS
Interaction of pairs of unlike elementsEnhance each other’s power
Conflict and destroyor
THE SHIFTING IMAGE
Entire environment Sets of images overlapped and interrelated
Arranged in a series of levels(necessity in a large and complex environment)
Images may differ
Scale of area
Viewpoint, time of day, season
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Types of ways map
a. Images developed along and then outward from familiar lines of movementb. Other map were begun by construction of an enclosing outline (boston peninsula)c. Still others began by laying down a basic repeating pattern (Los Angeles)
d. Other maps started as a set of adjacent regionse. Boston examples developed from a familiar kernel
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IMAGE OF QUALITY
a. Free various elements. No structure or interrelation between parts. Several images disjointed with gapsb. Structure as positionalc. The structure was flexible, parts were connected one to the other but in a loose and flexible manner
d. Connections multiplied, structure become rigid, parts were finally interconnectednin all dimensions
HIERARCHICAL IMAGE TYPE
Arrangement of the images
Connection made by moving up to the necessary bridging generality, and back down to the desired particular
CONTINUOUS ORGANIZATION IMAGE TYPEPut together in a more dynamic way parts being interconnected by a sequence overtime and pictured as though seen by a motion picture camera
An environment should be geared to the appropriate cultural type, or shaped in many ways so as to satisfy the varying demands of the individuals who inhabit it
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