Kevin A. Lynch

Kevin Lynch
Born	Kevin Andrew Lynch (1918-01-07)January 7, 1918 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died	April 25, 1984(1984-04-25) (aged 66) Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation(s)	Urban planner, scholar, writer
Awards	Rexford G. Tugwell Award (1984)
Academic background
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Influences	Frank Lloyd Wright
Academic work
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949–1978)
Main interests	Urban planning; environmental psychology; urban form
Notable works	The Image of the City What Time is This Place? A Theory of Good Urban Form
Notable ideas	Mental mapping; wayfinding; imageability

Kevin Andrew Lynch (January 7, 1918 – April 25, 1984) was an American urban planner and author. He is known for his work on the perceptual form of urban environments and was an early proponent of mental mapping. His most influential books include The Image of the City (1960), a seminal work on the perceptual form of urban environments, and What Time is This Place? (1972), which theorizes how the physical environment captures and refigures temporal processes.

A student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright before training in city planning, Lynch spent his academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching there from 1948 to 1978. He practiced site planning and urban design professionally with Carr/Lynch Associates, later known as Carr, Lynch, and Sandell.