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based on "the image of the city" by Kevin Lynch
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Building and Urban Design in Development
"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning"Michel Foucault
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Paths are default roads that each takes, goes through, observes. They could be a spatial as mental dimensions. Personal and professional experiences, and backgrounds influence the 'journey' as well as destinations, durations and approaches.
Each scenario - as each city - has its paths system.
Edges are gaps or overlaps between different conditions, stages, states, viewpoints, and actors. They can be interpreted as thresholds and as such could be understood in a positive or negative manner.
Districts are groups of actors, conditions, stages, states, and viewpoints that play important roles in the identity of the urban and academic system.
Each district is “recognizable as having some common” goals, policy, roles, and hopes.
Nodes are events where the elements joint and work all together in order to create an organic an active system of cooperation.
Landmarks are majestic figures that drive thoughts, theories, and often practice.
They are the main ingredients of theoretical frameworks and can lead to strategic urban analysis and interventions.
"In the process of way-finding, the strategic link is the environmental image, the generalized mental picture of the exterior physical world that is held by an individual. This image is the product both of immediate sensation and of the memory of past experience, and it is used to interpret information and to guide action.[…]
A clear image of the surrounding is thus a useful basis for individual growth. A good environmental image gives its possessor an important sense of emotional security. He/she can establish an harmonious relationship between himself and the outside world. […] sense of home is strongest when home is not only familiar but distinctive as well.[...]
Indeed, a distinctive and legible environment not only offers security but also heightens the potential depth and intensity of human experience.
Potentially, the city is itself the powerful symbol of a complex society. If visually well set forth, it can also have a strong expressive meaning."
The MSc Budd is a complex experience composed of multiples layers of concepts. These concepts are involved in a dynamic and continuous flow of framing and reframing as a sort of Panta Rei.
As for a city, "there is no final result, only a continuos succession of phases."(LYNCH, 1960)
As citizens dealing with a complex urban reality where "[...]our perception of the city is not sustained, but rather partial, fragmentary, mixed with our concerns."(LYNCH, 1960) as well, the BUDD students have to deal with an intensive process of elaboration and assimilation of new concepts.
Like Lynch that has interpreted the image of the city as five elements, this website deconstructs the BUDDexperience into the same five elements in order to achieve a clear legibility and imageability.
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