ABSTRACT
Using Kates' framework, the purpose of our comprehensive study was to investigate: a) the images that citizens held of their cities, b) their attitudes toward their cities, and c) the relationships between various images and attitudes. The groundwork was laid by Lynch (1960) who interviewed a small number of residents of Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles. From their verbal answers and sketches and the systematic field reconnaissance of trained observers, he hypothesized that a city image was composed of five element classes: paths, landmarks, edges, nodes, and districts. Lynch
claimed that the subject's image gave the city identity, structure and meaning.
