AR
The Image Of The City
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Students are required to present an in-depth and analytical research study on the designated topic. Students are to explore the image of a city based on Kevin Lynch’s most famous work, The Image of the City (1960). The project consisted of 2 parts; the first is to identify Lynch’s 5 elements; path, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks within a selected city and the second part is to produce an essay with a cognitive mapping of the city.
Reflective
Before this module started, I have no idea how a city planning works, what elements that should be in consider and how the city planner starts their planning. But now I know that with the 5 elements proposed by Kevin Lynch, in terms to create a functional urban city, together with the other articles that had been introduce in this module, I have learnt that with a good city planning, not only it benefits the aestheticness of the city scapes, but also the people living condition, environment, better circulation and nevertheless, the safety of the city can also be secured with the application of urban theory into city planning.