TY - GEN
T1 - The refraction of space
T2 - International Conference Spatial Cognition 2010
AU - Downs, Roger M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The field of spatial cognition began nearly fifty years ago. In the early years, Kevins Lynch's The Image of the City was an inspirational icon for many while Kenneth Boulding's The Image and E.C. Tolman's "Cognitive maps in rats and men" provided succinct but elementary philosophical and psychological groundings. The disciplinary roots of the field were disparate: architecture and landscape architecture, planning, psychology, geography, sociology, economics, and anthropology were the principal sources of scholars. If for the moment we take psychology as a benchmark for comparison, all of the other disciplines had some things in common in their approaches to spatial cognition.
AB - The field of spatial cognition began nearly fifty years ago. In the early years, Kevins Lynch's The Image of the City was an inspirational icon for many while Kenneth Boulding's The Image and E.C. Tolman's "Cognitive maps in rats and men" provided succinct but elementary philosophical and psychological groundings. The disciplinary roots of the field were disparate: architecture and landscape architecture, planning, psychology, geography, sociology, economics, and anthropology were the principal sources of scholars. If for the moment we take psychology as a benchmark for comparison, all of the other disciplines had some things in common in their approaches to spatial cognition.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77957069987
SN - 3642147488
SN - 9783642147487
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 5
EP - 6
BT - Spatial Cognition VII - International Conference Spatial Cognition 2010, Proceedings
Y2 - 15 August 2010 through 19 August 2010
ER -