alienated city

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urban planner

urbanist

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urban planning

urbanism

is the mentally unmappable city, a city like jersey city, in which none of the traditional markers (monuments, nodes, natural boundaries, built perspectives) exist.

The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch taught us that the alienated city is above all a space in which people are unable to map (in their minds) either their own positions or the urban totality in which they find themselves: grids such as those of Jersey City, in which none of the traditional markers (monuments, nodes, natural boundaries, built perspectives) obtain, are the most obvious examples. Disalienation in the traditional city, then, involves the practical reconquest of a sense of place, and the construction or reconstruction of an articulated ensemble which can be retained in memory and which the individual subject can map and remap along the moments of mobile, alternative trajectories' (Jameson 1984:89).

The Image of The City', Kevin Lynch defines the city as a form of temporal art [1]. Much like sculptures, cities are spatial structures, but unlike sculptures, cities are too large to be experienced in a single try' (net)

is also a literary creation. The London we experience was created as much by Dickens as its actual builders.

Dickens helped to create the London we experience as surely as its actual builders did.Kevin Lynch

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