It takes the average reader 3 hours and 23 minutes to read The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city...
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch is 202 pages long, and a total of 50,904 words.
This makes it 68% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 38 minutes to read The Image of the City aloud.
The Image of the City is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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