Abby's review
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
The book is very important in the history of the study of urban space, but reading it now, it serves more as a historical document than anything new or groundbreaking. Written in the 1960s, it lays out the terms and the ways of visualizing cities and the way people interact with their mental image of a place. The analysis of the mental maps people have of Boston, Jersey City and L.A. is very interesting, but becomes tedious.
