[Geowanking] Urbanites Spatial Sense and Spatial Familiarity

[Raj Singh]

Don't think anyone mentioned the seminal work yet:

The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
http://www.amazon.com/Image-City-Kevin-Lynch/dp/0262620014

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Raj


On Mar 14, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Ian White wrote:

> I haven't done any primary research, but there's plenty of good  
> reading about landmarks, referenceable waypoints, etc- I don't know  
> about gender-based spatial cognitive differences.
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> Ian White   ::  Urban Mapping, Inc
> 690 Fifth Street. Suite 200
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> To: geowanking at lists.burri.to <geowanking at lists.burri.to>
> Sent: Fri Mar 14 15:19:58 2008
> Subject: RE: [Geowanking] Urbanites Spatial Sense and Spatial  
> Familiarity
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> Ian,
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> Have you done any personal research or study on the subject? I’m  
> tempted to torture my coworkers with a little survey on the subject  
> just to see what the results would be. What, for example, would be  
> the differences between landmarks commonly used by my male coworkers  
> when compared with my female coworkers?
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> Landon
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> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 1:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Urbanites Spatial Sense and Spatial  
> Familiarity
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> UCSB is a hotbed of this stuff-Dan Montello has published a lot in  
> the area of spatial cognition, some call it enviro psych. There's a  
> rich collection of literature Barbara Tversky has also published a  
> great deal. I'm personally obsessed with spatial cognition and urban  
> wayfinding. UMI has a mini library on the subject
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> Ian White   ::  Urban Mapping, Inc
> 690 Fifth Street. Suite 200
> San Francisco. CA. 94107
> T.415.946.8170  ::  F.866.385.8266. ::  urbanmapping.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to <geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to 
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> To: geowanking at lists.burri.to <geowanking at lists.burri.to>
> Sent: Fri Mar 14 15:03:29 2008
> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Urbanites Spatial Sense and Spatial  
> Familiarity
>
> Landon,
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> Much of what you are talking about is known as mental maps in  
> Geography.  It really got started in 1976 when Peter Gould published  
> his first work on the topic. There is also a fair bit of awareness  
> of this in the urban design community.  The links will lead you  
> various places, the last to "fear and loathing in LA".
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> Enjoy,
>
> E
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> http://www.amazon.com/Mental-Maps-Peter-Gould/dp/0415084822
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_mapping
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> http://www.mentalmaps.info/
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> Landon Blake wrote:
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>         I’ve been shopping for a home with my wife the last few  
> weeks. It got me thinking about how people perceive their city  
> spatially.
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>         I’ve posted a short article about this on my OpenJUMP blog.  
> I’d like to hear comments on this topic from fellow geowankers.
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>         http://openjump.blogspot.com/
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>         The Sunburned Surveyor
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