TY - BOOK AU - Lynch,Kevin TI - The image of the city SN - 9780262620017 AV - NA9108 L9 1960 U1 - 711.40973 PY - 1960/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. : PB - MIT Press KW - City planning KW - United States KW - Local KW - Environment N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliography; The Image of the Environment -- Legibility -- Building the Image -- Structure and Identity -- Imageability -- Three Cities -- Boston -- Jersey City -- Los Angeles -- Common Themes -- The City Image and Its Elements -- Paths -- Edges -- Districts -- Nodes -- Land-marks -- Element Interrelations -- The Shifting Image -- Image Quality -- City Form -- Designing the Paths -- Design of Other Elements -- Form Qualities -- The Sense of the Whole -- Metropolitan Form -- The Process of Design -- A New Scale -- Appendices -- Some References to Orientation -- Types of Reference Systems -- Formation of the Image -- The Role of Form -- Disadvantages of Imageability -- The Use of the Method -- The Method as the Basis for Design -- Directions for Future Research -- Two Examples of Analysis -- Beacon Hill -- Scollay Square -- Bibliography -- Index -- ER -