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What Time Is This Place? Kevin Lynch The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England Copyright © 1972 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology This book was designed by Kevin Lynch and produced by the MIT Press Media Department. It was set in Linofilm Palatino by Southern New England Typographic Service, printed on Finch Filmtext by The Colonial Press, Inc. and bound in Interlaken AVI 428 by The Colonial Press, Inc. in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Lynch, Kevin. What time is this place? Bibliography: p. 1. Progress—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Cycles—Ad dresses, essays, lectures. 3. Time perception—Addresses, es says, lectures. I. Title. CB155.L95 301.24 72-7059 ISBN 0—262—12061—5 I have seen land made from the sea; and far away from the ocean the sea-shells lay, and old anchors were found there on the tops of mountains. That which was a plain, a current of water has made into a valley, and by a flood the mountain has been levelled into a plain. The ground that was swampy is parched with dry sand, and places which have endured drought are wet with standing pools. The heavens, and whatever there is beneath them, and the earth, and whatever is upon it, change their form. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV To: Howard Webber Michael Southworth Mary Potter Catherine Lynch Anne Lynch Karalyn Krasin Gyorgy Kepes, whose ideas helped me write this book Contents List of Illustrations vi Introduction: Time and Place 1 1 Cities Transforming 3 2 The Presence of the Past 29 3 Alive Now 65 4 The Future Preserved 90 5 The Time Inside 117 6 Boston Time 135 7 Change Made Visible 163 8 Managing Transitions 190 9 Environmental Change and Social Change 215 10 Some Policies for Changing Things 224 Appendix: Asking Questions 243 Bibliography 248 Illustration Credits 258 Index 260 v List of Illustrations 1 Ralph Allen's house in Bath 10 2 Rooftops of the Corridor, Bath 10 3 Stoke-on-Trent from the air 14 4 Broken crockery, Stoke-on-Trent 14 5 Waste heap, Stoke-on-Trent 15 6 Marl pit, Stoke 15 7 The site of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela 21 8 Maps of Ciudad Guayana by its residents 22, 23 9 Metamorphosis of the Hotchkiss House, New Haven, Connecticut 33 10 A garage occupies a church 34 11 The two sites of the temple at Ise, Japan 34 12 London Bridge in the Mohave Desert 45 13 Lake Havasu City, Arizona, from the air 45 14 The theater of Pompey on the old map of Rome 46 15 Its mark on the Rome of today 46 vi 16 Traces of a henge as cropmarks 47 17 Obliterating old cropmarks 47 18 Kwakiutl totem in decay 47 19 Amateur archaeologists in California 48 20 Inca stonework in Cuzco, Peru 58 21 The first bogman 59 22 Shaker chairs 59 23 Time ball, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England 68 24 Memorial exhibition for Martin Luther King 85 25 Playing in a dynamite box 85 26 Kite festival 86 27 An unfinished second floor in Athens 96 28 Early phase of squatter settlement, Peru 96 29 An office building "to be continued" and the breaching of a cornerstone 97 30 An old tree anchors a settlement 111 31 The race of time 129 vii 32-88 A walk down Washington Street in central Boston 135-162 89 Balia's La Giornata dell' Operaio 164 90 Balia's sketches for Volo di Rondoni 165 91 Marey's four-dimensional model of a flying gull 165 92 Avebury village and Silbury Hill 169 93 Fossil remains in a rural wall 172 94 The sunken temple of Vespasian, Rome 172 95 Contrasting views of the Piazza del Campo, Siena 175 96 Farewell to the Florentine ghetto 179 97 Oldenburg designs monuments to the tidal Thames 183 98 The vibrating figures of Hans Jenney 188 99 Waste heaps in a brickmaking pit 193 100 A marquee announces the final showing 197 101 Inhabitants revise a design by Le Corbusier 208 102 The demonstration town in the Summer Palace at Peking 230 viii What Time Is This Place?
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