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.”
