Kevin Lynch

Individual
1918
1984

Kevin Lynch is an influential urban planner and scholar who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright and received support from both the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He assisted in expanding the planning department at MIT for three decades, beginning in 1949. His field of study explored the nature of urban forms in relation to the individual, and his most famous work, The Image of the City, was a five-year study in how people perceive the city.