citymaus

20.09.2011
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Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City, 1960, MIT–Harvard.

Currently reading.
pretty short paperback. light reading. relevant.

about how people mentally map cities, streets, areas.

I don’t have a smart phone and thus don’t rely on GPS, and find this to be very interesting, as I explore cities and try to piece together where goes to where and ask why some people don’t venture out of what boundaries/edges.

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Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City, 1960, MIT–Harvard.

Currently reading.pretty short paperback. light reading. relevant.
about how people mentally map cities, streets, areas.
I don’t have a smart phone and thus don’t rely on GPS, and find this to be very interesting, as I explore cities and try to piece together where goes to where and ask why some people don’t venture out of what boundaries/edges.

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Love to see people reading this book. It was the theoretical basis/organization structure for my honours paper on...
geminis-obsessions reblogged this from citymaus and added:

Yeah, this is a really good one, most of the ideas are still relevant, which declares the brilliancy of Lynch.
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