Tali Hatuka: In the edited volume, Imaging the City, you and your co-editor Sam Bass Warner wrote, "Those who care about the future of cities must confront a silent reality: cities are no longer just built; they are imaged" (p. xxiii), Why did you choose 'imaging' and not imagining or visioning, since these other terms are more familiar concepts?

Lawrence Vale: The first reason, I suspect, is that we were trying to situate our book in relation to the classic book by Kevin Lynch, which was written in the department forty years earlier, that was called The Image of the City and not 'imagining' the city, or 'envisioning' the city. That book had, as its underlying premise, the notion that there were some kinds of mental maps that people carried around with them that were a product of their close observation and engagement in all senses with the city around them…[…]

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