Description
The Image of the City is a 1960 book by American urban theorist Kevin Lynch. The book is the result of a five-year study of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles on how observers take in information of the city, and use it to make mental maps.
Lynch’s conclusion was that people formed mental maps of their surroundings consisting of five basic elements which Lynch identifies as Paths, Edges, Districts, Nodes, and Landmarks.
