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Chargement... What Time is this Place?par Kevin Lynch
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A look at the human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. Time and Place--Timeplace--is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime that may be the ultimate reality of the material world.Kevin Lynch's book deals with this human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. The center of his interest is on how this innate sense affects the ways we view and change--or conserve, or destroy--our physical environment, especially in the cities. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I worked in commercial real estate for several years; developers are not a sensitive lot. I can tell you what happens when, fully armed with a portfolio of terrific examples, you try talking to developers about interesting, pleasing, thoughtful, and cutting-edge designs for their planned gas stations and strip malls. One in a hundred will be interested (and I love that one person). The other 99 just want to put up their gas station or strip mall on the cheap and start making some money; they don't give a flip what it looks like. When better building actually occurs, it is usually because a well-off community and its planning commission have design guidelines in place, and can hold developers' feet to the fire. So the rich get prettier, greener, more expressive architecture, and the rest of us get the usual thing. This is so far from what a democratic thinker like Kevin Lynch was about; he wanted good design to be for everyone, and not only in the occasional case of a civic or showcase-type building. But dumbing-down is the reality of the marketplace. ( )