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	comments on page 6	In reference to Johnson's book Emergence, and his view of cities as a kind of interface, you might take a look at Kevin Lynch's book The Image of the City. Lynch is an urban planner, and he also looks at a city as a kind of interface to its inhabitants. His main concept is that cities have a certain "legibility" which is determined by key experiential elements: paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks. The parallels between his analysis of a city's "imageability" and the field of traditional human-computer interface is quite astonishing and enlightening. by Chris Edwards on 4/27/2003 at 14:44:23 What's the point here of applying the term "interface" to so many aspects of everyday life? I'd say: Computers need interfaces. Interfaces do not need computers ;-) by max bruinsma on 4/27/2003 at 08:24:55 I appreciate all these different ways of conceiving of "interface," but what is you thesis? by Ellen Handler Spitz on 4/20/2003 at 14:04:19 I agree that since interface is literally a meeting of anything, you can construe just about anything you want that way. So what's the upshot? Is the opposing viewpoint that there are no boundaries? Everything bleeds into everything else? I want to know more about the implications of the decision to see things this way. by Simon Greenwold on 4/09/2003 at 17:04:54 I don't feel comfortable commenting on the writing, so I've decided to comment on the design of the essay. I like the look of the site--clean, un-ornamented, non-fussy typography. I found the interface to be not as successful. The navigation is a little hard to figure out--there is almost no difference between the page you are on and the other pages. Also, there is no table of contents, no way of finding, for example, section 2.1. I'd prefer that the navigation was only by section rather than by page. You should know what section you are in at any time. Also, it seems that the comments are to be associated with each page rather than the whole essay. You should be able to see at any stage if there are comments present rather than having to clock the button and then find out that nothing is there. Lastly, I was surprised that a design essay contained no illustrations. What ever happened to pictures and diagrams? by David Small on 4/09/2003 at 16:11:49			+
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