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Through his commitment to urban design and urban planning, the legacy of American urban scholar Kevin Lynch is still influential today in urban design practice as well as in education.

The seminar ’Contemporary Receptions of Kevin Lynch’ will present key ideas in the work of Lynch with the agenda of exploring how Lynch’s work can add to the understanding of contemporary urbanism. Drawing upon invited academic researchers’ work the aim is to facilitate a highly informed discussion and reflection upon the reception of Lynch.

The seminar aims at covering various themes in the works of Lynch, that are relevant to contemporary urban design and urban studies: the legacy of Kevin Lynch, contemporary urban mapping, urban mobility and flows, shopping and the problem of representation seen in the light of Lynch.

The seminar is organised by Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Tom Nielsen, Aarhus School of Architecture and Institutt for urbanisme og landskap (Studio course: Urban Design – Sealed against the Real).

There is no registration or registration fee. All is welcome to the seminar, which is arranged in AHOs Auditorium from 09-15.

Program:

Edward Robbins (Professor, AHO) – The Plan as Visual Reality

Grahame Shane (Professor, Colombia University (Cooper Union, City College in New York)) – The Legacy of Kevin Lynch

Ole B. Jensen (Professor in Urban Theory, Aalborg University) – Pleasure, Fun and Flow – urban travel in the works of Kevin Lynch

Peter Hemmersam (AHO) – Kevin Lynch and Shopping

Tom Nielsen (Associate professor, Aarhus School of Architecture) – Mapping from Lynch and Onwards

Grahame Shane published the book RECOMBINANT URBANISM – Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design, and City Theory in 2005. In the book he develops the urban-modeling techniques, first pioneered by Kevin Lynch into a comprehensive framework for the discipline of urban design. He discusses the main approaches of urban design, that have evolved to deal with the fragmented contemporary city, and describes how the very same forces at work behind the freedom of the individual have also led to a widespread urban dispersal. Shane brings his argument up to date with an exciting and innovative vision of contemporary practice, in which urban actors combine urban elements in networked cities.