Kevin Lynch – Good City Form

My professor recommended I take a look at Good City Form by Kevin Lynch. I just started it but thus far it is pretty interesting. It is about the analysis of urban design. Here are a couple of quotes:

On what makes a good urban design: “cities are too complicated, too far beyond our control, and affect too many people, who are subject to too many cultural variations, to permit any rational answer.”

“The modification of settlement is a human act, however complex, accomplished for human motives, however obscure or ineffective. Uncovering those motives gives us some first clues to the connection between values and environmental form.”

~ by publicspaceanalysis on October 12, 2008.