Sociology 2152A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mental Mapping, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Intensify
20 Apr 2014
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Most people can offer a personal image of the city that is defined as the individual"s generalized mental picture of the city"s external physical world. We all develop images of the city in a similar fashion = 1) we make distinctions among the various physical parts of the city, 2) We organize these parts into personal meaningful ways. We are familiar with places where we always hang out (not the whole city) Kevin lynch discovered that people built their urban images from. 2) edges (boundaries between 2 areas = shores, walls, wide streets, breaks between buildings) 3) districts (medium to large sections of the city) 4) nodes (points of intense activity = train station terminal, usually where paths leads to) 5) landmarks (physical reference points = buildings, signs, stores, domes, gas stations, hills) Most people incorporate many of the same elements in their own image (what a path is = what a path is to other people as well)
