Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City and Enterprise Architecture

There’s a passage in Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City that reads as if it were an explanation of Enterprise Architecture.

These shapings or reshapings [of a city] should be guided by what might be called a “visual plan” for the city or metropolitan region: a set of recommendations and controls which would be concerned with visual form on the urban scale. The preparation of such a plan might begin with an analysis of the existing form and public image of the area, using the techniques rising out of this study [...]. This analysis would conclude with a series of diagrams and reports illustrating the significant public images, the basic visual problems and opportunities, and the critical image elements and element interrelations, with their detailed qualities and possibilities for change.

The “image” he writes about is the inhabitants image of the city (see “Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City and Software Architecture“) and the elements are “paths, edges, districts, nodes, and landmarks.” Lynch continues:

Such a plan should be fitted into all the other aspects of planning for the region, to become a normal and integral part of the comprehensive plan. Like all the other parts of this plan, it would be in a continuous state of revision and development.

Has anyone identified a set of fundamental elements relevant to the analysis of an enterprise and the creation of an enterprise architecture? In the book, Lynch describes weaknesses and strengths of cities’ “imageability,” very effectively, using these elements and their interrelations. For instance, regarding the continuity of paths, he writes:

That the paths, once identifiable, have continuity as well, is an obvious functional necessity. People [in their studies] regularly depended upon this quality. [...] Examples of characteristics giving continuity to a path are the planting and façades along Commonwealth Avenue [in Boston], or the building type and setback along Hudson Boulevard. Names in themselves played a role. Beacon Street is primarily in the Back Bay but relates to Beacon Hill by its name.