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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
informative
This book has its limitations (most significantly, its privileging of physical form in how people make sense of cities), but Lynch is speculative rather than deterministically prescriptive about how his ideas might translate into urban design. It's a pleasure to read, though I associate it with a certain pointless mapping exercise from my urban studies undergrad years.
Interesting research study and methodology concludes that strong visual form not only makes a city more livable but also improves quality of life. Suck it, Jersey City.
informative
slow-paced
Lynch's book, Image of the City, was definitely outdated for the 21st Century; however, the book demonstrated the late 1950s and early 1960s hope of urban planners to turn the city into something other, something rural.