Kevin Andrew Lynch (January 7, 1918 – April 25, 1984) was an American
urban planner and author. He is known for his work on the perceptual form of urban environments and was an early proponent of
mental mapping. His most influential books include
The Image of the City (1960), a seminal work on the perceptual form of urban environments, and
What Time is This Place? (1972), which theorizes how the physical environment captures and refigures temporal processes.