The way we build cities today with many signature architecture, along with the criticism of such an approach, is truly indebted to Kevin Lynch's general idea of imageability--the need for a coherent visual order in man's urban environment. This idea of imageability has unfortunately led to a commodification of architecture and its images, which in turn reinforced the specious need to create even more signature work for imagined prestige rather than human concerns. Consequentially, what is achieved is in fact imageability without legibility.
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