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“The City Image and its Elements” from The Image Kevin Lynch Editors’ Introduction a Kevin Lynch (1918-1989) is the towering figure of twentieth-contury urban design. The Image ofthe City, from which this selection is taken, is the most widely read urban design book of alltime. Lynch was a professor of urban Studies and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he taught courses in urban design. As a young student Kevin Lynch apprenticed himself to Frank Lloyd Wright. Drawing widely on material from Psychology and the humanities, Lynch sought to understand how people perceive their environments and how

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