Redefining landmarks

Paths, nodes, districts, landmarks and edges as classified by Kevin Lynch have been strongly debated since the 1960’s and the typical issue of contentment would be about the overlapping definitions between some categories and their order of importance. For example, can a node be a landmark? Some...

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Main Author: Lamit, Hasanuddin (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fakulti Alam Bina, UTM, 2004-06.
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