Year 100 – 1960: The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
Published: Cambridge, Mass., 1960 Could you direct a pedestrian from Post Office Square in downtown Boston to Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill? How about from Mass General Hospital to South Station? And could you describe what that pedestrian would see once they got there? As one part of his 1954-1959 “Perceptual Form of the City” study, Kevin Lynch sent researchers out into the streets of Boston to ask people to do just that. That study laid the groundwork for The Image of the City, Lynch’s seminal 1960 work on the urban environment. Kevin Lynch studied at Yale University, Rennselaer Polytechnic […]