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Kevin A. Lynch
American urban planner and author (1918–1984)
For other people called Kevin Lynch, see Kevin Lynch (disambiguation).
Kevin Lynch | |
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| Born | Kevin Andrew Lynch (1918-01-07)January 7, 1918 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Died | April 25, 1984(1984-04-25) (aged 66) Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Urban planner, scholar, writer |
| Awards | Rexford G. Tugwell Award(1984) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Influences | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949–1978) |
| Main interests | Urban planning; environmental psychology; urban form |
| Notable works | The Image of the City What Time is This Place? A Theory of Good Urban Form |
| Notable ideas | Mental mapping; wayfinding; imageability |
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. His most influential books include
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The city represents a layered complexity that appears to be irreducible to any ultimate principle or determination. In a modern city, theoretical and physical boundaries are ambiguous and undefined. The city is not an entity; it is composed of multiplicities, a space for government, of accidents and events through which a manner of conceiving and constructing space is derived based on several stable, isolatable, and interconnected properties. It represents a confluence of cultures, diversity, and tolerance. It is composed of a series of networks and relationships running parallel to each other and crossing over at nodes or junctions which represent the instances at which systems converge, providing coherence to a complex matrix. The promise of coherence is granted only through the summary designation of the proper name which coagulates diverse and otherwise discontinuous moments of space.
Therefore, the city is more than just geographical space, and the role of city planners in this milieu is dedicated to the capturing and shaping of human, spatial and ideological forces which i
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Top 20 Urban Planning Books (Of All Time)
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (1961). A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the definitive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed. The New York Times writes that The Death and Life of Great American Cities is, "Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning." Buy this book.
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, by Lewis Mumford (1972). One of planning and design’s most influential urbanists presents a history of the forms and
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