On the Research Methods of the Urban Image of Kevin Lynch[J]. Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007, 29(2): 19-22. DOI: 10.11835/j.issn.1674-4764.2007.02.005.
The two contrast research methods-empiricism and rationalism-are the most compelling among many arguments in architecture.However
such a definite contrariety cannot be found in Kevin Lynch's study of Urban Image.By an Analysis on the research methods of Kevin Lynch-including his psychological and phenomenological research methods
as well as his psychological and anthropologic references-this paper tries to prove that the research of Architecture may be an organic whole of positivism and dialectic
of quantitative and qualitative analysis
and of Myth and Science.The methodology of architecture does not reject poetry