Rethinking Image of the City in the Information Age

Mental image is an essential topic and it serves various fields in urban studies including behavioral geography, urban design branding and tourists destination management. The emergence of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and corresponding socio-physical changes have affected almost every aspect of contemporary urban life together and the perce of the city. Legibility, mapping, meaning and experience of the space are all significant issues that need to be readdress order to understand how the new image of the city is forming. This paper discuss Image of the City in light of new techno evolution. It uses Lynch's (1960) model and tracks impact of technology on both the observer and the observed. Descri analytical review of literature on legibility and environmental image, and impact of ICT is carried out. Followed by an enqui how these issues affect our perception of space. Finally, a framework to study Image of the city in the information a developed. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.