In his seminal work on The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch described how people create mental maps of urban environments. Lynch studied a handful of prominent American cities in the middle of the twentieth century and identified five mental elements through which their inhabitants interpreted and navigated space – elements that he labeled as paths, landmarks, edges, nodes, and districts. Lynch also pointed out, however, that these five elements were part of a specific historical and geographical experience and that they might change in other contexts or based on the urbanites’ specific cultural background. ¹