There must also be some random accumulations to enable us to discover unexpected relationships. But serendipity is possible only when recollection is… - Kevin A. Lynch

...a distinctive and legible environment not only offers security but also heightens the potential depth and intensity of human experience.

...the function of a good visual environment may not be simply to facilitate routine trips, nor to support meanings and feelings already possessed. Quite as important may be its role as a guide and a stimulus for new exploration.

Any existing, functioning urban area has structure and identity, even if only in weak measure...A frequent problem is the sensitive reshaping of an already existing environment: discovering and preserving its strong images, solving its perceptual difficulties, and, above all, drawing out the structure and identity latent in the confusion.