Work
The Image of the City
Explore in the Atlas →Seminal work on urban perception, introducing legibility and imageability (paths, edges, districts, nodes, landmarks).
Settlement
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ObservationLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- articulates Legibility & Imageability
Referenced by
- Kevin Lynch authored
Sources
- Kevin Lynch. The Image of the City. MIT Press, 1960.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "The Image of the City." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/the-image-of-the-city/. Accessed July 17, 2026.