Society and Space: Environment and Planning .
"is an international and interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for the discussion of the mutually constitutive relation between the social and the spatial. It seeks to be philosophically sophisticated, practically relevant, and to concretely theorise a range of contemporary, historical, political and cultural contexts.
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The shape of urban experience: a reevaluation of Lynch’s five elements
Quentin Stevens
"The key theoretical background is Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City (1960). Through interviews, Lynch identifies five fundamental elements of people's mental image of urban environments: paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks. These are the properties of the urban fabric which capture people's attention as they move through cities; they are features that people move along or towards, or at which they change direction. These elements help people with the practical task of wayfinding. Lynch's (1960) comparative analysis of three cities has long sustained an implied argument in favour of greater legibility. The clarity and empiricism of his study has prompted many designers to impose simplistic formal structures on urban environments, without investigating how people actually behave within various kinds of urban settings (Lynch 1991, Sternberg 2000). As Lynch later noted (1991), there is clearly much more to the relation between urban morphology and human experience than legibility. Lefebvre (1991) points out that the form of the city is not just observed: it is felt with the body, and it is made use of in action, as suggested by Lynch's (1960:48) own example of a doorknob being a landmark.
... This paper suggests that two equally important conditions of urban spatial experience are unpredictability and choice. Comparatively little is known about the role of urban structure in framing the unexpected and unfamiliar. This paper uses a Lynchian framework to examine how spatial elements frame a wide range of non-instrumental urban social behaviours: social interactions between strangers, new bodily experiences, the discovery of new views, the reading of new meanings - such kinds of 'playful' experiences being a defining feature of the urban condition (Lofland 1998).
...A key finding of this research is the identification of five fundamental types of public settings which frame most acts of play: paths, boundaries, thresholds, intersections and props. The paper explains how these kinds of spaces concretise distinctive conditions of spontaneity, confrontation, distraction and risk."