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City: The Image Of City By Kevin Lynch

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Austin is located in central Texas and it’s the capital of the state of Texas. It is the second largest state capital in the U.S. The city’s name changed from Waterloo to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, “Father of Texas. The image of Austin, TX is identified by five elements such as paths, nodes, edges, landmarks and districts, suggested in the book “The Image of City” by Kevin Lynch (1962). With these five elements, we can evaluate the level of legibility of a city and to use them as a reference for future development of the city. The sources used here are imported from the city of Austin official website, About, MyStatesMan and Wikipedia. City map and images were downloaded from Google Earth and Google images. Lastly, some facts

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