Human Aspects of Urban Form. Towards a Man–Environment by Amos Rapoport

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434) or in the sense of the perception of possibilities, resources or hazards (Burton 1972; Burton and Kates 1972; Kates 1962; Saarinen 1966; Kates, Burton et al. ongoing). It has been used to describe the perception of the mutuality of interests among various groups of actors in the design process. In political science it has been used to study how people see the world and to trace the major differences between the views of the public and academics (Robinson and Hefner 1968). Yet classifying countries as similar or dissimilar, and evaluating them, is a cognitive and evaluative process and the result is not really a perceptual but a cognitive map or, more correctly, a display of evaluative rankings.

Furthermore, design can be seen as a process of making users' experiences more congruent with designers' intentions, of making some sets of reactions more likely than others, of eliciting more restricted sets of images from users, so that designers, by manipulating physical elements try to guide peoples' schemata. , Antrobus 1970; Segal 1971). Most generally an image is an internalized representation and, regarding the environment, it is "an individual's mental representation of the parts of external reality known to him via any kind of experience" [including indirect experience] (Harrison and Sarre 1971).

Most people experience more or less the same things and can agree that there is a tree, building or open space in a given place. This is needed for the survival of the human race (Gibson 1968; Gregory 1969) although there is evidence for some differences based on culture (Segall, Campbell and Herskovits 1966; Price-Williams 1969; Wober 1966) as well as effects of education and experience in terms of the ability to discriminate among stimuli (Rapoport and Hawkes 1970). Comprehension and Knowledge.

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