# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-a-lynch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:01:31.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-a-lynch"
name: "Kevin A. Lynch"
slug: "kevin-a-lynch"
description: "Kevin Andrew Lynch 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."
tagline: "American urban planner and architect (1918-1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Kevin_A_Lynch.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1918-01-07"
deathDate: "1984-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 250
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump