THE CITY IMAG E AND ITS ELEMENTS

Rreview
From the components of the urban environment's image, this book a priori focused on opportunities
to better compose the city, and what that would be the center of the book, is in fact the combination
of several early tracks that can be used to satisfy Human, true focal point of the study. With the
creation of the city arose new behaviors notavly related to anxiety and preventing from the full
personal fulfilment. This is to offset the feeling of fear (almost in its representation) that a city has to
be better organized. The collective image of the city is the whole of a large number of individual
images. It is therefore necessary to be able to define and understand them in order to orientate
oneself easly and act effectively in the community and as one with compagnions. Those three
actions are in my opinion the main feature of sociological analysis that had pushed the author to
such a theme of the city.

The nerve of fear is the feeling of being lost// The fear of being lost is the result of, in animate
organisms, their need to move towards in relation with their surroundings. Severals interpretations
are possible but generally and in most of the cases it is due to a serie of mostly unconscious
resentment merging one after the other and inducing distress. For exemple, the lack of cues causes
disorientation that suggests an unfamiliar landscape's view so unknown, that proceed to any kind of
feelings related to insecurity then the potential danger concept can be touched upon the mind finally
induicing fear.
The nerve of fear is the concern prone to effectiveness// Being part of a world where productivity is
the main way to succes, the urban Man is constantly seeking to make any kind of actions profitable
by complex relationship to others or materially. This persistent concern reflected by anxiety, affects
morale made addicted to a need for effective actions and avoidance of any loss of time.
The nerve of fear is the quality of relationship with other people// Social integration fully
accomplished is symbol of fullfillment in one's environment and especially in the city where
indifference is more expressed than mind openess. In fact urban citizen wil fall bank on himself
rather than having spontaneous exchange with people around him.
Conclusion There is a density of information relating to the image that varies depending on the
observer and finally the eye focuses on a series of details that attracted it enough to secure its
memory. Except that images are all the more complex that they can be perceived differently
according to scale of the area, point of view where it is taken, time of the day, season... Moreover the
time factor synonymous of changes and mutations can lose the authenticity of a place and break the
continuity of its landscape. The author suggested the need for having connections between different

levels of observation but also between major changes made on spaces and a record of answer
which diversity would give a complete description of the place, thereby considering to find the proper
solution for the sake of Human good orientation and circulation

Summary
The Image of the city and its elements The chapter explains that there is a public image of each city,
which is the result of the join of separate images. The content of the images of the city and its
elements reflex references to physical forms, which are classified into five types of elements,
namely:
1. Paths: The paths are the ducts that potentially follow and guide the observer to a specific area.
2. Edges: they are linear elements that the observer does not use. Is the boundary between two
phases, linear breaks, such as railroad tracks, streets, walls or any other edge these edges can be
lines sutures and they relate and join two regions.
3. Districts: The districts are places where the observer enters and relates mentally and emotionally,
are recognized as having a common character that identifies them.
4. Nodes: They are strategic points to which an observer can enter and are the intensive focus of the
city. They can be confluences, places of a break in transportation, a crossing or convergence of
paths, places of transition from one structure to another. Its importance is that they are the
condensation of certain use or physical character, such as a corner where people gather or a
square. Some of these node concentrations are the focus of a neighborhood that it is very influential
and is characterized as a symbol, many nodes have confluences characteristics and at the same
time are features of concentrations. The term node is linked with the concept of path, because the
junctions are typically the converge of paths. In the same way it is linked to the concept of
neighborhood, since the cores are typically the intensive focus of the neighborhood. In almost all
images may be some nodal points and in certain cases can be the dominant image.
5. Landmarks: The landmarks are another type of reference point. Usually it is a physical object
quite simply defined as a building. Some landmarks are distant and are used as a reference.
Generally the districts are structured with nodes, defined by edges, crossed by paths and
surrounded by landmarks, where the elements usually overlap and intersect.
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