SOCB44H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: The Motor, Georg Simmel, Industrial Technology
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Georg simmel- city is a tremendous concentration of buildings, images ad people that intensifies stimulation like no other form of human settlements. Reach to the city in 2 ways: 1) physical setting 2) social environment. Consider how people perceive physical surroundings and try to make sense. Kevin lynch interview urbanites in boston, jersey city, los angeles. Showed a map representing several square miles of the central city and asked respondents to describe it. Most could offer personal image of the city. Lynch defined it as the individual"s generalized mental picture of the external physical world. Most of respondents developed the image in a similar fashion. Their images emerged as part of a 2 way process: 1) distinctions among the various physical parts of the city. 2) organized these parts in a personally meaningful way. People built the urban images from 5 common elements. 1) paths, channels along which the observer customarily moves.
