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Kevin A. Lynch Quotes

1918–1984 United States

Kevin A. Lynch (January 7, 1918 - April 25, 1984) was an American urban planner, author and professor.

United States
Academics
Architects
Non-fiction authors
Psychologists

Also known as: Kevin Lynch

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14 quotes

"To attempt to preserve all of the past would be life-denying."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"It is taken for granted that in actual design form should be used to reinforce meaning, and not to negative it."

The Image of the City (1960)

"Concepts of size may depend in part on how well a structure can be grasped."

The Image of the City (1960)

"The remote past is different, since it does not threaten the present."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"An environment that cannot be changed invites its own destruction."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"Choosing a past helps us to construct a future."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"If we examine the feelings that accompany daily life, we find that historic monuments occupy a small place."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"...a distinctive and legible environment not only offers security but also heightens the potential depth and intensity of human experience."

The Image of the City (1960)

"Leisure is now possible for many , and customs of timing are more obvious and less absolute. Time has become both more valuable and also more subject to reallocation."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"We prefer a world that can be modified progressively, against a background of valued remains, a world in which one can leave a personal mark alongside the marks of history."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"Like law and custom, environment tells us how to act without requiring of us a conscious choice. In a church we are reverent and on a beach we are relaxed."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"Accumulated literary associations add depth to the experience; place names become pegs for layers of commentaries, as in the Chinese culture. But at base the emotional pleasure is a heightened sense of the flow of time."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

"In a complex society, there are may interrelations to be mastered...If an environment has strong visible framework and highly characteristic parts, then exploration of new sectors is both easier and more inviting."

The Image of the City (1960)

"There must also be some random accumulations to enable us to discover unexpected relationships. But serendipity is possible only when recollection is essentially a holding fast to what is meaningful and a release of what is not."

What Time Is This Place? (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kevin A. Lynch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.