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What is Wayfinding? Part 2—The City as a Model

What is Wayfinding? Part 2—The City as a Model (Image of Map)

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In the 1960s, an educator and urban planner named Kevin Lynch first used the term “wayfinding” in his book “The Image of the City" and, while this model is organized around the context and features of a city, it can be applied to most built environments—for example, a shopping mall also has paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks.

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