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Kevin Lynch and Maks Fabiani
Velimir Neidhardt
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The article gives a comparative anachronieal analysis of two approaches to the urban image. In the middle of the twentieth century Kevin Lynch defined elements of the urban image explicitly and theoretically, and presented them to the publicin his brilliant bok The image of the city. It prompted great interest in the visual impact of towns, encouraged complementary semiological research, and gradually made Kevin Lynch a name linked in urban studies with the formulation ofa new criterion -the criterion of the IMAGEABILITY.
On the other hand Maks Fabiani, a practitioner in town planning, a central-European scientist and artist from the tum of the ninetenth century, in a comparable manner implicitly broke down the elements of the urban image in his plan to regulate the town of Ljubljana.
To say that Kevin Lynch introduced the imageability as a new criterion would be rather like proclaiming figurative art a new development in art after half a century of abstraction, i.e. like losing sight of thousands of years of progress.
However, this does not diminish Lynch's contribution, it makes it part of the historic context of town planning. Lynch supplied the lacking explicit theory of visual urban perception based on objective criteria. Nevertheless, to his work should be added the memento that the art of composing elements of the urban image has ben part of culture for a long time. As the beauty of agglomerations was cultivated and passed down from age to age, an objectivized common-sense basis for estimating the beauty of towns was established. Even a small excursion to the peak period of Central-European culture, to Maks Fabiani, reveals the full richness, awareness and art of applying the same principles of the picturesque.
Six decades separate Fabiani from Lynch. In that period no similarsy stematic research into public perception was recorded, and Lynch's final results in fact confirm the validity of Fabiani'straditional expertise in town planning. Lynch's theory confirms the stability and quality of European cultural continuity, and especially of the central-European contribution which was, unfortunately, extenguished in the violent events of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Hrčak ID:
30771
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Datum izdavanja:
30.6.1994.
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