PLACE MATTERS: Introduction to the Contemporary City

/in /by

please answer the questions,

  1. What is the City? Finding evidence to Describe the City.
    Please describe below what factors influence perceptions and therefore our mental maps of
    places. The noted City Planner, Kevin Lynch described these as 5 elements of “Image of City”.
    What are they?
  2. How to Read the City? Evaluating evidence to generate informed urban perspectives.
    Please describe the research methods that are used to decode the City. The primary research
    conducted in-class and through assignments was collected first hand rather than found in books,
    databases or journals. What three methods were employed to conduct the primary research on
    place matters? Please describe them below:
  3. How to Read the City? Evaluating evidence to generate informed urban perspectives.
    People understand cities through recognizable elements that provide legibility and emotional
    security of being in familiar settings. Please describe two recognizable elements that you
    associate with Baltimore as a City.
  4. Analyzing the City Ecosystem. The City in Nature.
    Please describe two elements of the urban fabric that relates to the natural environment of the
    City. These examples may include those that were shown in the lecture for Week 6, please be
    sure to describe why these elements are important to the city.