City Sense and City Design, Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch

City Sense and City Design, Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch

Autor: Kevin Lynch. Editado por Tridib Banerjee y Michael Southworth

Idioma: inglés

ISBN: 0-262-12143-3 (H), 0-262-62095 (P)

Año: 1995

Dónde conseguirlo: Amazon

Sobre el libro:

City Sense and City Design, reúne el trabajo de Kevin Lynch, mostrando cómo llevó muchas de sus ideas y teorías a la práctica, por lo que completa el registro del legado de uno de los principales teóricos del diseño ambiental de este tiempo, y conduce a una comprensión más profunda de su filosofía humanista distintiva.

Los ensayos en la primera parte se centran en la lectura de Lynch, de novelas de los grandes entornos construidos y la idea de que el diseño de un paisaje urbano debe ser lo más significativo e íntimo como el paisaje natural. A continuación siguen extractos de diarios de viaje de Lynch, los cuales revelan sus primeras ideas sobre cómo las personas perciben e interpretan su entorno, ideas que culminaron en su conocida obra “La imagen de la ciudad”. En esta parte del libro, Lynch también presenta experimentos con los niños y su evaluación de la investigación del medio ambiente y la percepción. Los ejemplos de análisis a pequeña y a gran escala de forma visual en la parte III, son seguidos por tres partes en el diseño de la ciudad. Estos incluyen trabajos más teóricos de Lynch sobre las decisiones de planificación que implican a la vez la función (organización espacial y estructural) y la norma (cómo funciona la ciudad en términos humanos). El libro concluye con ensayos escritos al final de la carrera de Lynch, que muestra las utopías y los temores en relación a las ciudades.

Índice:

Kevin Lynch: His Life and Work

Chapter I: The Form of Cities

Editors’ Introduction

The Form of Cities

The Patterns of Metropolis

The Visual Shape of the Shapeless Metropolis

The City as Environment

Chapter II: Experiencing Cities

Editors’ Introduction

The Travel Journals

Notes on City Satisfactions

Some Childhood Memories of the City (with A. Lukashok)

Growing up in Cities (with T. Banerjee)

A Walk Around the Block (with M. Rivkin)

The Urban Landscape of San Salvador: Environmental Quality in an Urbanizing Region

Nanjing (with T. Lee)

Forward to Environmental Knowing

Environmental Perception: Research and Public Policy

Reconsidering The Image of the City

Chapter III: Analysis of Visual Form

Editors’ Introduction

A Process of Community Visual Survey

An Analysis of the Visual Form of Brookline Massachusetts

Development and Landscape: Martha’s Vineyard (with Sasaki, Dawson & Demay Associates)

Analyzing the Look of Large Areas: Some Current Examples in the United States

Chapter IV: City Design: Theory

Editors’ Introduction

A Theory of Urban Form (with L. Rodwin)

Environmental Adaptability

The Openness of Open Space

Open Space: Freedom and Control (with S. Carr)

Where Learning Happens (with S. Carr)

Quality in City Design

Chapter V: City Design: Education and Practice

Editors’ Introduction

City Design and City Appearance

The Immature Arts of City Design

Urban Design

City and Regional Planning

Sensuous Criteria for Highway Design (with D. Appleyard)

Designing and Managing the Strip (with M. Southworth)

On Historic Preservation: Some Comments on the Polish-American Seminar

The Image of Time and Place in Environmental Design

Some Notes on the Design of Ciudad Guayana

Comments: A Manual for Site Development for Columbia, Maryland

Controlling the Location and Timing of Development

City Design: What It Is and How It Might Be Taught

Chapter VI: City Design: Projects

Editors’ Introduction

Government Center and the Waterfront, Boston

Community Revitalization Plan for Columbia Point

Boston Tomorrow: Draft Development Policies

Performance Zoning: The Small Town of Gay Head Tries It (with P. Herr)

University Circle Area Planning Project, Cleveland

The Rio Salado Development Project

Temporary Paradise? A Look at the Special Landscape of the San Diego Region (with D. Appleyard)

Chapter VII: Utopias and Cacotopias

Editors’ Introduction

The Possible City

Grounds for Utopia

What Will Happen to Us? (with T. Lee and P. Droege)

Coming Home: The Urban Environment After Nuclear War

Fantasies of Waste

Extracto:

“In these articles Lynch set forth the premises that underline much of his work: that designers and planners should deal whit the form of the entire city and region, not just the small spaces and individual structures of civic significance; that the urban landscape can and should be just as meaningful and delightful as the natural landscape and should be designed to be so; and that there should be an intimate connection between the forms of places and the values and needs of their users.”