Reflecting on the legacy of Kevin Lynch’s cognitive approach to city design through Italian didactic experiences
In Italy many of Lynch's writings have had great influence. However, if The Image of the City enjoyed a prolonged success, other texts suffered from faster obsolescence. The reasons for this fluctuating interest refer to the debate on urban analysis and design, marked – especially in some periods – by a strong criticism to functionalist, organicist and morphological theories applied to the project.