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Spatial Knowledge and Urban Planning
Urban Planning, 2022 Urban planning is simultaneously shaped by and creates new (spatial) knowledge. The changes in planning culture that have taken place in the last decades—especially the so-called communicative turn in planning in the 1990s—have brought about an increased
Anna Juliane Heinrich +2 more
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Spatial Knowledge: A Potential to Enhance Public Participation? [PDF]
Sustainability, 2020 Spatial knowledge, i.e., knowledge about space and place, is commonly used by stakeholders during the deliberative process of public participation practice. The goal of this article is to examine to what extent spatial knowledge exists and is used in a formal public participation practice, as well as its potential to enhance the public participation ...
Aulia Akbar +3 more
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Inconsistency in spatial knowledge [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 1983 Two experiments examined whether spatial information judged from cognitive maps contains the functional euclidean properties of real maps. In Experiment 1, the six directions between sets of threetriad locations in a town were judged from memory. The angle formed by the two judged directions from a location to the other two locations in a triad was ...
I, Moar, G H, Bower
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The Immersive Mental Rotations Test: Evaluating Spatial Ability in Virtual Reality
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 Advancements in extended reality (XR) have inspired new uses and users of advanced visualization interfaces, transforming geospatial data visualization and consumption by enabling interactive 3D geospatial data experiences in 3D.
Ian Lochhead +3 more
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The Role of Gender and Familiarity in a Modified Version of the Almeria Boxes Room Spatial Task
Brain Sciences, 2021 Individual factors like gender and familiarity can affect the kind of environmental representation that a person acquires during spatial navigation. Men seem to prefer relying on map-like survey representations, while women prefer using sequential route ...
Alessia Bocchi +5 more
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Exploring the dynamic reading of environment towards a multidimensional legibility
ARSNET, 2023 This study investigates the understanding of legibility, defined as the coherency of built environment features. Legibility enables production of mental image that helps individuals with their spatial navigation.
Putri Mahsa Gantari, Ferro Yudistira
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Modeling spatial knowledge [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 1978 A person's cognitive map, or knowledge of large‐scale space, is built up from observations gathered as he travels through the environment. It acts as a problem solver to find routes and relative positions, as well as describing the current location. The TOUR model captures the multiple representations that make up the cognitive map, the problem‐solving
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Qualitative Methods and Hybrid Maps for Spatial Perception with an Example of Security Perception
Urban Planning, 2021 The security/insecurity of our cities has become the subject of public debate in recent years. The individual intuitions about security or insecurity can vary with age, gender, social background, personal constitution and previous positive or negative ...
Mandy Töppel, Christian Reichel
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Transforming Spatial Practices Through Knowledges on the Margins
Urban Planning, 2022 Drawing on knowledges of spatial practitioners in Slovakia and Czechia, as well as those of feminist science and technology studies and actor-network theory, the article explores the benefits and importance of bringing diverse knowledges into spatial ...
Zuzana Tabačková
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Discursive design thinking: the role of explicit knowledge in creative architectural design reasoning [PDF]
, 2010 The main hypothesis investigated in this paper is based upon the suggestion that the discursive reasoning in architecture supported by an explicit knowledge of spatial configurations can enhance both design productivity and the intelligibility of design ...
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