Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Perceptions of the Environment

Gordon Cullen, 1961, Serial Vision

Serial Vision = sequence of view points

Serial Vision is to walk from one end of the plan to another, at a uniform pace, will provide a sequence of revelations which are suggested in the serial drawings opposite, reading from left to right.

Gordon Cullen Serial Vision, 1960

+Place (here and there)
+Content (this and that)


Kevin Lynch, 1960, The Image of the City

Visual quality = legibility of the city
Identity = structure and meaning


+Paths -in which we move
+Edges -between districts
+Districts -recognisable area
+Node -meeting point
+landmark

+Boundary -conventional subdivision
+Limit -physical element
+Edge -an interface between two edges

+Memorial -who I am
+Landmark -where I am
+Monument -why the city has its layout


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