"Any existing, functioning urban area has structure and identity, even if only in weak measure...A frequent… — Kevin M. Lynch
"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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