eprintid: 18920
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datestamp: 2010-03-30 16:33:27
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Mora Vega, R.I.
title: The cognitive roots of space syntax
ispublished: unpub
subjects: 2900
subjects: 14500
divisions: BG
abstract: During the last twenty-five years of research and real-world studies accomplished all
over the globe, space syntax has consistently shown that movement patterns in cities
and buildings tend to be strongly related to configurational properties of their
respective spatial layouts. It has also been shown that individuals’ trajectories in virtual
worlds are affected by the syntactic properties of these environments, and that the
resulting emergent patterns may explain the detected correlations between
configurational properties of space and movement patterns in real-world scenarios.
However, none of these studies have so far attempted to elicit why these regularities
occur at a more fundamental, cognitive level. In other words, they have not yet
answered how the idea of spatial configuration shapes a person’s qualitative
assessments and subsequent usage of spatial networks. This is the topic of this thesis.
What kind of information do people extract from spatial configurations? How is this
information used when assessing a spatial network qualitatively? How is this
information used when one has to use such a network? These are some of the questions
that this thesis will attempt to answer.
This thesis will focus on map usage. By analysing how people interact with maps, this
thesis will attempt to shed light on the processes by which people internalise
configurational information and are able to define qualitative judgements that may be
use in real-world scenarios. As a result, this thesis aims to be a further step in the
ongoing process of linking space syntax with cognitive theory and therefore to
contribute in the search of the cognitive roots of space syntax.
date: 2009-11
vfaculties: VBEF
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
thesis_view: UCL_Thesis
dart: DART-Europe
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 309
institution: UCL (University College London)
department: The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Mora Vega, R.I.;      (2009)    The cognitive roots of space syntax.                   Doctoral thesis , UCL (University College London).     Green open access   
 
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