Kevin A. Lynch

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States | death_date = | death_place = Aquinnah, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States | workplaces = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1949–1978) | alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology | nationality = | occupation = Urban planner, scholar, writer | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | school_tradition = | main_interests = Urban planning; environmental psychology; urban form | principal_ideas = Mental mapping; wayfinding; imageability | major_works = ''The Image of the City''
''What Time is This Place?''
''A Theory of Good Urban Form'' | awards = Rexford G. Tugwell Award (1984) | influences = Frank Lloyd Wright | influenced = }}

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.

A student of architect Frank Lloyd Wright before training in city planning, Lynch spent his academic career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching there from 1948 to 1978. He practiced site planning and urban design professionally with Carr/Lynch Associates, later known as Carr, Lynch, and Sandell. Provided by Wikipedia