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    The document summarizes Kevin Lynch's theory of the five elements that people use to mentally map cities: pathways, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. Pathways are streets and routes that people travel along. Edges are linear elements like walls that form boundaries. Districts are recognizable areas of a city. Nodes are junctions or areas that people enter. Landmarks are reference points people can see but not enter, like buildings or signs. Together these five elements form the mental maps people use to navigate and understand cities.

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    The document summarizes Kevin Lynch's theory of the five elements that people use to mentally map cities: pathways, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. Pathways are streets and routes that people travel along. Edges are linear elements like walls that form boundaries. Districts are recognizable areas of a city. Nodes are junctions or areas that people enter. Landmarks are reference points people can see but not enter, like buildings or signs. Together these five elements form the mental maps people use to navigate and understand cities.

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    KEVIN LYNCH

    PRINCIPLES
    Abstract:-
    “There seems to be a public image of any given city which is the
    overlap of many individual images. Or perhaps there is a series of
    public images, each held by some significant number of citizens. Such
    group images are necessary if an individual is to operate successfully
    within his environment and to cooperate with his fellows. Each
    individual picture is unique. with some content that is rarely or never
    communicated, yet it approximates the public image,which, in different
    environments, is more or less compelling, more or less embracing.”
    -Kevin Lynch
    MENTAL MAP OR MIND MAP
    • A mental map is a person's point-of-view perception of their area of
    interaction.
    • A person’s perception of the world is known as mental map, it’s an
    individual’s own map of their known world.
    • The image which the user form in his mind about the architectural
    and urban components of the city and their places so he can direct
    his motion through the city after that.
    CONCEPT OF MENTAL MAP OR MIND MAP
    • The overall mental image of an urban environment will be:
    • 1. Partial : not covering the whole city
    • 2. Simplified : omitting a great deal of information
    • 3. Unique : each individual has his/her own
    • 4. Distorted : not necessary has real distance or direction.
    THEORY - FIVE POINTS

    Kevin Lynch found that there are five basic elements which
    people use to construct their mental image of a city:
    • Pathways
    • Districts
    • Edges
    • Landmarks
    • Nodes
    1. PATHWAYS

    • These are the streets, sidewalks, trails, canals, railroads and other
    channels in which people travel
    • They arrange space and movement between space
    • Paths are the channels along which the observer moves. They may be
    streets, walkways, transit lines, canals, railroads
    Paths are important elements
    • 1. Concentration of uses
    • 2. Containing significant buildings and facades
    • 3. paths are the most important elements in people’s images :
    • other elements are arranged and along them.
    • Unclear paths = unclear city image
    2. EDGES
    • Boundaries
    • They can be either Real or Perceived
    • These are walls, buildings, and shorelines, curbstone, streets,
    overpasses, etc.
    • Edges are linear elements that form boundaries between areas or
    linear breaks in continuity (e.g. shores, railway cuts, walls).
    • The strongest edges are continuous in form, and often impenetrable
    to cross movement.
    Manmade edges
    Natural edges
    Districts may have Clear edges, or soft uncertain ones gradually fading
    away into surrounding areas
    DISTRICTS
    Medium to large areas that are twodimensional;
    • An individual enters into and out of these areas
    • Have common identifying characteristics
    Districts are the medium-to-large sections of the city which the
    observer mentally enters "inside of," and which are recognizable as are
    the medium to large parts of the city which share the same
    characteristics
    Style - spatial form, topography- colors, texture, urban fabric
    4. NODES

    • Large areas you can enter, serve as the foci of the city, neighborhood,
    district, etc.
    • Offers the person in them multiple perspectives of the other core
    elements.
    • Nodes are points, the strategic spots in a city into which an observer can
    enter, and which are the intensive foci to and from which he is travelling..
    • They may be primarily junctions or concentrations.
    • Strategic points in the city that:
    • the user can enter it
    • be directed to many destinations
    • it can be gathering places or intersection of paths, or
    5. LANDMARKS
    • Points of reference person cannot enter into;
    • These are buildings, signs, stores, mountains, public art,Mobile Points can be
    used as well.
    • Landmarks are another type of point-reference, but in this case the observer
    does not enter within them, they are external. They are usually a rather simply
    defined physical object: building, sign, store, or mountain.
    • A physical element with unique and special visual features that has a "point-
    specific” location, and can be identified from the distance.
    What makes landmark a land mark?
    • Singularity: “one in the context”
    • Contrast with the surroundings
    • Clarity of general form
    • Difference in form, shape & height from surroundings

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