《The Image of the City》读后感100字
《The Image of the City》是一本由Kevin Lynch著作，The MIT Press出版的Paperback图书，本书定价：USD 27.00，页数：194，特精心从网络上整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《The Image of the City》精选点评：
●周末的阅读。学了两个学期终于读了原著，老人家都说啦，白天和夜晚的街道连续性程度是不同的，呈现不一样的pattern，所以我迷路都是有道理的。（无耻发言）
●2019.24 ARC110 Humanities and architecture
●直男式城市解析，六几年的书现在看也不过时
●#Information Design
●对Boston好严厉……
●城市
●每个学建筑和规划的应该必备的书
●想不到一本60多年前的城市理论竟然还可以用来分析当下城市结构 很震惊
●最大的价值是创造，不是完美
●字小了点看着累
《The Image of the City》读后感(一)：City design n planning
My copy is on shipping ....^^
对于此书， 我是既爱又恨
先是恨，因为是我们整个大学生涯的必读物。
我讨厌这本书完全是出于自己对枯燥无味的公式化的语言所打败，在起初是怎么也提不起对于通读此书的兴趣。然而，2年过去，发现在这个铁壳后是宝藏之。。。读呼。反复的读。一定要结合空间的想象，加上对书中的城市背景的了解， 同时，连接自己所在地的一些空间布局。希望， 这些加上一些时间，阅历，和反复的思考，会使我们对于设计有更丰富的理解和体验。
爱嘛，就是那一些些瞬间的启发与随之而来的灵感，和对你周边环境更深层的理解。
“哦~~”就是这样的瞬间。:)
《The Image of the City》读后感(二)：城市的构成元素
作者凯文林奇从城市的可识别性开始，娓娓的讲述了城市的影像对于城市结构和特性的重要性。随后，他提出一系列城市构成部分的概念，并归纳出五个基本的元素，即道路（Paths），边界（Edge），区域（District），节点（Nodes）和地标（Landmarks）。
记住这五个元素就可以理解书中很大一部分的内容。不过，作者仅以美国的三座城市-波士顿，泽西城和洛杉矶-为案例，有一定的局限性，读者如果不是很了解这些城市的话，很难很深的去理解这些概念。当然，凯文林奇的语言浅显易懂，往往能够把一些复杂的城市理论剖解的很清楚，这是很多当代的城市/建筑研究书籍不能及的。难怪在此书出版了五十年了，至今还在很多建筑院校中当作重点参考书籍。
我个人认为此书最重大的意义在于提出的五个城市构成元素。此书之所以经典，是由于其内容渗透到了日常的规划/建筑设计活动之中，我们很多口中经常提及的设计原理都有此书的影子。
我们为什么不用这五个元素也来衡量我们现在居住的城市呢？
《The Image of the City》读后感(三)：田野调查整挺好
这是一项从实用角度出发的城市形态学研究，perceptual是文章中最常出现的词之一。采用田野调查方法，整挺好（确实是社科书籍，中文版封面这么丑）。
作者理想中的城市（都市）是可被把握又足够多元的。并且很乐观地给城市形态以citizen之visual education之功能。
作为归纳分析，这本书还是没有到足够凝练的地步。尽管提出了著名的5 elements: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks，这些分析直到metropolitan form一节才真正开始有味。我们要被自己造出来的庞然大物反噬了嘞！那怎么办？我想只能是Homo fabricatus了。作者觉得在专业人士的努力下，我们可以从confusion转到对面的art。但confusion对面可能仍然是confusion，因为the city已经完全out of control了，更不要说the image of it。
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《The Image of the City》读后感(四)：Review by Gaia Zamburlini
“The image of the city” was written by American urban planner Kevin Andrew Lynch (1918 – 1984). After studying in various places, including Taliesin Studio under Frank Lloyd Wright, he received a Bachelor degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where, later on, he became full professor in 1963.
His main contribution was to provide empirical research on city planning, studying how individuals perceive and navigate the urban landscape. This book, published in 1960, also explores the presence of time and history in the urban environment, and therefore how these external factors affect people. The first, straightforward approach to the city, taken by every individual, is looking at it, which constitutes a 5-sense aesthetical experience through space and time. A urban system can therefore be either perceived as stable or in constant change, which is the most noticeable effect of external factors affecting any environment.
On this concern, Lynch states that, unlike Architecture, Urbanism is in constant change: today, fifty years later, this issue could be regarded and discussed with further attention, as architecture, too, is subject to external factors and different perceptions, scale, but mostly a cultural aspect, involving the fact that In the 1960s the life-cycle of a building was still not wholly taken into account, as it came up about twenty years later with sustainability issues.
Lynch focuses on four main concepts, correlated to a wise urban planning:
a urban system has to be held legible, through definite sensory cues
its image has to be perceived by the observer, arbitrarily selected by the community and finally manipulated by city planners.
legibility and imageability would then lead to the identification of a structure, and therefore a precise identity, which are both parameters through which it is possible to analyse an urban system and its own elements.
Lynch reckons that there might be different relations of complexity within every structure: these consist in the relations between definite elements, which are identified in:
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Lynch’s aim is to understand the relation between environmental images and urban life, at the basis of urban design principles; he therefore brings up an analysis of three different towns, putting into practice a research method whose successfulness is assessed and tested through the results of the analysis itself.
The research focused on Boston, Jersey City and L.os Angeles. As explained, the method undertaken concentrated on two phases, consisting firstly in office-based interviews, where the sample citizens were also required to draw up a map in order to make a rapid deｓｃｒｉｐｔion of the city. The second phase consisted in a systematic examination of the environmental image evoked by trained observers in the field.
This is how, through surveys and research, Boston appears to be perceived only as one-sided, Jersey City is described as a formless place “on the edge of something else” and Los Angeles, despite being well structured, seems as faceless as Jersey City, delivering a sense of bewilderment.
On the basis of this in-depth analysis, Lynch summarises the common themes that have arisen, among which we should remember : a common interest for panoramas, and smaller landscape features, noted with care and attention; shapeless places which, although not pleasant, seem to be remarkable and striking, as Dewey Square excavations in Boston around the ‘60s economic boom; identification of places with the social-classes that occupy or use them; the presence or lack of historical marks.
It is interesting to realise how the whole interview and in-field approach has been the one aimed at discovering the social experience of a town, which does not just outline how a urban system works but also how it is perceived by people. This approach reveals a particular compatibility with the rising experimental psychology of the ‘60s, aimed at constituting methods and theories according to the action and reaction of people.
From the field-research, what evidently arises is that each individual image constitutes a connection between urban forms and what is, on a more global extent, the public image. Each of those images is constructed and relying on the 5 elements already mentioned, which are:
-paths: the channel of the observer
-edges: breaking in continuity with the surrounding areas
-districts: 2-dimensional elements within which we spot a common character
-nodes: strategic points
-landmarks: external references
As we previously said, it is possible to draw out thousands of interrelations between the elements, which Kevin Lynch thoroughly describes in Chapter 3 and 4.
On one side, we could therefore say that his method follows a coherent bottom-up route, starting from the individual elements to reach gradually the whole; This strategy would be set to aim at continuity, regularity, measurability and kinesthetic quality, which is the first to provide identity over a continuous experience through time. Nevertheless, although the bottom-up method has a point, as far as order and clarity is concerned, it sticks to the mid-century tendency to cathegorisation, which today might turn out to be too constraining when facing different and multiple realities.
In conclusion, we could say that in the image development process, visual education is the basis for reshaping what surrounds us, and viceversa. This is in fact the main condition for which a critical audience can be formed and therefore for which a urban system can be analysed, manipulated and developed. Despite what previously was said about Kevin Lynch’s ‘schematism’, we reckon his contribution has been of relevant importance: first of all, he has fully put into practice what had just lingered among architects and planners for years: an attention and complete recognition of the citizen’s role, that not only lives a town –stating his own needs-, but also perceives it –providing useful images for planners to work on. Secondly, the importance of visual communication in the urban space, which brings together individuals, experience and planners in order for them to communicate on a common thread.