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Kevin Lynch
• Kevin Andrew Lynch was born on
BOOKS
7th Jan 1918 & died on25th April • Lynch made important contributions to the field
1984. He was an American urban of city planning through experimental research on
planner & author. how individuals identify and navigate the urban
• He is best known for his work on landscape.
mental mapping & on perceptual • The Image of the City and A Theory of Good City
form of urban environments. Form, discover the existence of time and history in
• He was a disciple of FLW before he
the urban environment, how urban surroundings
studied city planning, & spend his
academic career at the affect children, and how to join human view of
Massachusetts Institute of the physical form of cities and regions as the
Technology, teaching there. conceptual basis for good urban design.
CONECEPT OF MENTAL MAPPING
Kevin Lynch’s ‘The Image
Of The City’ gives us 5
Elements that describes an
Urban Form.
“There seems to be a public image of any given city which is the overlap of
many individual images. Or perhaps there is a series of public images, each held
by some significant number of citizens. Such group images are necessary if an
individual is to operate successfully within his environments and to cooperate
with his fellows. Each individual picture is unique, with some content that is
rarely or never communicated, yet it approximates the public image, which, in
different environments, is more or less compelling, more or less embracing.” Jersey City

Boston

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