City image

Author: Kevin Lynch
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: This book discusses the appearance of cities, as well as its importance and variability. The urban landscape, among the many roles of a city, is also a source of what is visible, memorable, and delightful to people. Giving a city a visual form is a special and relatively new design problem. A city, no matter how ordinary it may seem, can bring joy. Cities, like buildings, are structures of space, but on a much larger scale and require a longer process of perception. Urban design can be said to be an art of time, yet it is quite different from other time arts, such as the mastered rules of music. Clearly, under different conditions and for different groups of people, the principles of urban design may be inverted, disrupted, or even completely abandoned.