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Good City Form
Kevin Lynch
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Historically...
The oldest known cities were temple cities
Laid out along processional avenues and impressive sights
Built to impress pilgrims and get their tribute
(Disney World, Las Vegas)
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Temple Cities
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Temple Cities
Defined a place for humans in the Cosmos, seperating us from chaos
The rulers are the upholders of order
Leads to 'holy city plan'
Feng shui
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Machine Cities
New settlements in foreign lands laid out on a grid
Allows planning, expansion, change and impermanence
Combined with fortification, allows easier defense
Control by segregation
(Roskilde Festival)
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Machine Cities
The city is seen as a collection of parts
Scalable and flexible
Repeating patterns
Sprawl
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Machine Cities
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Values
Vitality
Fit
Sense
Access
Control
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Vitality
• Support of biological human needs• And human capabilities
o Should have access to food & water etc.o Remove wasteo Prevent diseaseo Defend against attack
• Expectations scale with our ability (eg. to predict disasters)
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Fit
• Human Factors• Rhythms
o Work hourso Sleepo Day/Nighto Seasons
• Suitedness to purpose and ease of use• Can be emergent and non-universal
(McGyver)
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Fit
• Manipulabilityo the ability to influence
environment
• Flexibility to suit future purposes (Grid layout suited for this)
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Bad Fit
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Good Fit
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Sense
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Sense
• Legibility of a place
• Identity
• Sensory impression
• Cognitive impression
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Sense
A good city cannot follow a strict model, since differentiation is a value in itself
Identity and "historicalness" are hard to make
The experience of a place should have flow
Transparency: The processes and origins should be legible too
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Access
Variety of destinations >< Travel time
Externalities
Control
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Access
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Access
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Control
control of space is useful for creating feelings of
dominance, status, power
vs.
excluded, submitted, weak
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Control
Wastelands• Hard-to-reach areas outside the city
• Low degree of control
• High degree of subversiveness, freedom
• Fit
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