Kevin Lynch, Urban Planner. 

 Kevin Lynch is one of the all-time best contributors to the art and science of city design. The Image of The City, published in 1960, contains many terms and ideas that are now clichés. He developed theory and language based on his study of three towns: Boston, Jersey City and Los Angeles. He, like other urban planners in the 1950s and 1960s, laid the ground for contemporary approaches. Even though conditions in the 21st century are quite different than those of post WWII, their ideas remain useful.