# The Image of the City

- Author: [Kevin M. Lynch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-m-lynch.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-m-lynch/the-image-of-the-city

## Quotes

> "Concepts of size may depend in part on how well a structure can be grasped."

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> "...the function of a good visual environment may not be simply to facilitate routine trips, nor to support meanings and feelings already possessed. Quite as important may be its role as a guide and a stimulus for new exploration."

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> "In a complex society, there are may interrelations to be mastered...If an environment has strong visible framework and highly characteristic parts, then exploration of new sectors is both easier and more inviting."

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> "Any existing, functioning urban area has structure and identity, even if only in weak measure...A frequent problem is the sensitive reshaping of an already existing environment: discovering and preserving its strong images, solving its perceptual difficulties, and, above all, drawing out the structure and identity latent in the confusion."

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> "...education in seeing will be quite important as the reshaping of what is seen. Indeed, they together form a circular, or hopefully a spiral, process: visual education impelling the citizen to act upon his visual world, and this action causing him to see even more acutely. A highly developed art of urban design is linked to the creation of a critical and attentive audience. If art and audience grow together, then our cities will be a source of daily enjoyment to millions of their inhabitants."

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> "The contemporary urban area has man-made characteristics and problems that often override the specificity of site. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that the specific character of a site is now perhaps as much the result of human action and desires as of the original geological structure."

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> "...different observers will all find perceptual material which is congenial to their own particular way of looking at the world. While one man may recognize a street by its brick pavement, another will remember its sweeping curve, and a third will have located the minor landmarks along its length."

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> "...a distinctive and legible environment not only offers security but also heightens the potential depth and intensity of human experience."

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> "It is taken for granted that in actual design form should be used to reinforce meaning, and not to negative it."

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