ancient cities

writings and projects involved collaborations with
his students.
The legacy of Kevin Lynch continues to inspire
architects, landscape architects, planners, and urban
designers even though he never offered a concrete
paradigm for one to follow. His approach was one
based on many important influences—from arts
and aesthetics to pragmatism, naturalism, and
social change—and represents a unique blend of
values and norms that remains an important
anchor point of urban design theory and practice.
Tridib Banerjee
See also Environmental Design; Urban Design; Urban
Planning
Further Readings
Banerjee, Tridib and Michael Southworth. 1993. “Kevin Lynch:
His Life and Work.” Pp. 439–68 in The American Planner:
Lynch, Kevin
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Biographies and Recollections, edited by Donald Krueckberg.
New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research.
Evans, Gary W. 1980. “Environmental Cognition.”
Psychological Bulletin 88:259–87.
Jameson, Frederic. 1991. Postmodernism, or the Cultural
Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press.
Lynch, Kevin. 1984. “Reconsidering The Image of the
City.” In Cities of the Mind, edited by Lloyd Rodwin
and Robert Hollister. New York: Plenum.
Rawls, John. 1971. A Theory of Justice. Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Sen, Amartya. 1999. Development as Freedom. New
York: Knopf.
Southworth, Michael. 1989. “Theory and Practice of
Contemporary Urban Design: A Review of Urban
Design Plans in the United States.” Town Planning
Review 60:4.
Tolman, Edward. 1948. “Cognitive Maps in Rats and
Men.” The Psychological Review 55(4):189–208.