Cognitive sketching, the image of the city
Conway, AR | 2021
The sketch is inspired by an American urban planner and author, Kevin Lynch. He is known for the work on perceptual form of urban environments and focuses on early urban planning of mental mapping. According to his book, he states that there is a public image of any given city that can be composed by overlapping many individual images. He classifies the contents of the city into five categories which are paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. None of these elements are isolated from one other in the real world. Districts are structured with nodes, defined by edges, penetrated by paths and sprinkled with landmarks. These elements are the raw aspects of the environmental image at the city scale. The categories can be patterned together to provide satisfying form. Such pairs may reinforce, resonate or enhance others power; or they may conflict and destroy themselves. In this exercise, there was experiment on adding more categories depending on what city we are from. In Conway, Ar we are known as the City of Colleges as well the City of Roundabouts.
