Responsiveness of Urban Landscape and Flyovers Chapter one: Understanding Urban Landscape
The nodes can be interpreted as the strategic points to which the observer can enter and exit as his experience of the urban landscape. The nodes can be junctions, crossings and convergences of the paths, movement of shift from one structure to another. Even the nodes get the physical character by condensation of the use or the physical character around it. In many cases the nodes act as spaces which promote people to stay and enjoy. Though they are with much space for people to gather it is not a concluding space but an intermediate space of the journey.
“Some of these concentration nodes are the focus and epitome of a district, over which their influences radiates.�(Lynch 1979, p.48)
Further Lynch reveals that the nodes always should not have a strong character in recognising it. But if the space has some quality or an activity it will enhance the node obviously. Some nodes can survive even they do not have a functional importance. But successful nodes will be unique and at the same time intensify some surrounding characteristics.
Fig28. Successful Node; Campo in Siena; Italy, Market; Kingsland, Pompidou; Paris.
Fig29. Nodes with no functional significance; Munster; Germany, Paris, France. 20