What Time Is This Place?
Kevin LynchQuotes
Frequently we have sought to increase the range and stability of our time image by constraining the future—by building eternal pyramids or by expounding some dogma of the coming messiah.
Sayfa 94 - müellif bey, pardon, siz şehir plancısı değil miydiniz, bu ne biçim kitap yazdınız böyle?
Two (sometimes three) superimposed cycles give duplicate readings, according to angular dis-placement around a finely marked rim. Neither minutes nor hours nor half days correspond to the natural cycles of our bodies or the sun. And so teaching a child to read a clock is not a childish undertaking. When asked why a clock had two hands, a four-year-old replied, "God thought it would be a good idea."
Sayfa 67 - city for circle
As the architect clarifies and embellishes spatial transitions, so perhaps the environment should not be temporally changeless or change evenly with the clock but should seem to make dramatic transitions, succeeded by slow shifts. New rituals of time might arise: letting in the light, celebrating the solstice, dramatizing a residential move, marking birth and death. Beginnings and endings are what we remember in order to make sense of the drift of events. Some changes should coincide with social transitions: marriage, closing time, mealtime. The course of the year might become a succession of distinct periods on the background of neutral time. The standard hour and the standard week were important achievements. Can we now create a more human calendar?
Sayfa 86 - "madem uyumuyorsun, sahur sofrası ellerinden öper."
Disaster, preservation, renewal, growth, revolution—each of these characteristic transformations presents different problems for managing the environment. Common to them all is the perception of change—not only those objective alterations in the state of things but what we understand them to be and how they connect with our hopes and memories and sense of time's flow.
Sayfa 28 - Hopes and memories are leaking into your technique again, good thing you didn't hear my tone, it would be worse.
At times we enjoy complete immersion in immediate sensation. Music, dance, sports, or any action that engages the whole body can do this.
Sayfa 84