The Urban Village and the Urban Neighborhood: Impact on Perception of Neighborhoods in the Buckhead Area
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Merklein, Gordon H.
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Abstract
Our perceptions of the built environment have an
important influence on the way we experience our cities. In
the late 1950s, Kevin Lynch began studying human cognition
and cognitive mapping in order to understand how people see
their cities. From these studies, Lynch found that people
cognitively organize cities with a series of common themes,
which he defined as paths, edges, nodes, districts, and
landmarks. The evolution of these design elements and the
study on human cognition and city design has helped planners,
architects, urban designers, and others interested in the
built environment to understand how people organize their
image of the city. This paper has two goals: 1) how residents of the
neighborhoods which comprise the larger Buckhead community
perceive the image of both their residential area, which is
stable, and the adjacent commercial activity, which is
undergoing change; and 2) to identify what residents define
as the image of their community in terms of both geographical
boundaries and physical elements, especially when both are
constantly changing.
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1991-06
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