New Era, New Criteria for City Imaging

Kaveh Fattahi () and Hidetsugu Kobayashi ()
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Kaveh Fattahi: Urban Design & Regional Planning Lab., Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
Hidetsugu Kobayashi: Urban Design & Regional Planning Lab., Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2009, vol. 4, issue 3(12), 63-72

Abstract: Despite many dramatic changes in last fifty years, urban designers still try to measure city imaging with same criteria as was described by Kevin Lynch in his landmark volumes. However, city imaging increasingly is supplemented by exposure to recent progresses in communication infrastructures. It seems that once again we need to re-ontologize concepts of city imaging for twenty-first century as his ideas were theoretically created when digital evolution was not such widely affected our world. This paper aims to identify effects of these new digital actors on city imaging. Consequently, we propose that with emergence of Softerial Era and infospherization of almost everything, another kind of landmarks have been evolved (linkmarks) which are highly referenced to a self and relative to his destination and necessities in real-time. We believe they can improve not only our sense of place but also sense of time as an inevitable necessity in our current life.

Keywords: Kevin Lynch; City Imaging; Infospherization; Landmark; Sense of time. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M31 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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