Urban cognition
By: edited by Tommy Gärling.
Contributors: Gärling, Tommy.
Series: Readings in environmental psychology
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London; San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Cognitive maps (Psychology); Environmental psychology.; Cognition -- collected works.; Space Perception -- collected works.; Spatial Behavior -- collected works.; Concept Formation -- collected works.; Learning -- collected works.
Description: Since its inception, the Journal of Environmental Psychology has demonstrated its pre-eminence through publishing original, innovative papers. By bringing them together in one volume, ready access has been provided to the first-hand accounts of a range of explorations that are central to the growth and development of environmental psychology itself.

This volume brings together the major papers published in the journal that cover studies of the nature, acquisition and use of cognitive representations of urban environments. Most of the researchers represented in this volume will be well known to environmental psychologists for their prolific contributions to the field, and therefore this book also provides a valuable cross-section of the work of key researchers in environmental psychology.

The book will be of value beyond the realms of urban cognition: it provides an opportunity to examine a range of studies that explore the psychological processes whereby people summarize and distil a rich mixture of experiences, recording them in a form that allows for future utilization. As such, the volume will be of value not only to environmental psychologists but to all those who are interested in how people make sense of the world around them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : how do urban residents acquire, mentally represent, and use knowledge of spatial layout? / T. Gärling; title: Structure of urban cognitive maps / J.I. Aragonés and J.M. Arredondo; title: The role of figural organization in city imageability : an information processing analysis / C.J. Holahan and P.F. Sorenson; title: Exploring the anchor-point hypothesis of spatial cognition / H. Couclelis ... [et al.]; title: Reference systems in cognitive maps / T. Gärling ... [et al.]; title: Navigator : a psychologically based model of environmental learning through navigation / S. Gopal, R. Klatzky and T.R. Smith; title: Acquisition of spatial knowledge for routes / S.C. Hirtle and J. Hudson; title: The effects of pathway configuration, landmarks, and stress on environmental cognition / G.W. Evans ... [et al.]; title: The influence of affective associations on the development of cognitive maps of large environments / J.F. Herman, B.S. Miller and J.H. Shiraki; title: Spatial representations, a wayfinding perspective / R. Passini; title: Sketch-map variables as predictors of way-finding performance / M.J. Rovine and G.D. Weisman; title: The spatiotemporal sequencing of everyday activities in the large-scale environment / T. Gärling ... [et al.]; title: Planning, mood, and place-liking / J. Snodgras, J.A. Russell and L.M. Ward.