Mental Maps of the City
Suburban Preference Patterns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4886671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ron Johnston (0000-0003-3031-8573, University of Canterbury, corresponding author), R J Johnston (0000-0001-7523-2701, University of Canterbury) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-72 |
| Publication date | 1971-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a030063 |
| OpenAlex | W2022907593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 4 |
Many sets of observations have shown that intra-urban migration is generally oriented outwards, away from the City centre. Two major suggested explanations for this directional bias are Hoyt's concept of the sectoral structuring of socio-economic status residential patterns and Adams's ideas concerning the shape of the mental images of the City which its residents hold. The present paper presents an investigation of the mental maps of some sample respondents in the Christchurch urban area, New Zealand, which asks whether these images are influenced both by the perceived socioeconomic status of the various suburbs and a restricted view of the City. The results are encouraging and suggest that both Hoyt and Adams may have been correct in formulating their ideas. It is becoming commonplace within urban research to criticise the widely-used models of intra-urban residential patterns as inappropriate. Not all would agree with this, however, so further testing is required. Among the more important aspects needing further investigation are the assumptions on which the models are based, since if these are irrelevant then the validity of the models is extremely unlikely. The aim of the present paper is such an inquiry with reference to Hoyt's sectoral model of the residential patterns of socio-economic status groups
Economics · Geography · Mental mapping · Population · Preference · Regional science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Statistics · Structuring · Categorization, perception, and language · Demography · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
Patterns of Spatial Search
Attitudes, Images, and Location
Activity Spaces and Residential Preferences
On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography
Perception of Urban Retailing Facilities
An Empirical Investigation into the Concept of Sectoral Bias in the Mental Maps, Search Spaces and Migration Patterns of Intra-Urban Migrants
Rent, surplus and the evaluation of residential environments
Urban distance cognition
Mental Maps and Residential Desirability. A Singapore Study
Die perzeption der distanz im städtischen verkehrsliniennetz — das beispiel Karlsruhe-Rintheim
Perception of urban retailing environments
Spatial variations in awareness of air pollution distributions
Information, Space and the Measurement of Housing Preferences and Demand
Scaling Residential Preferences
The Nature of Consumer Usage Fields in an Urban Environment
Popular imaginative geographies and Brexit
Attitudes towards the Urban environment
Journey pattern adjustments on Sydney's metropolitan fringe an exploratory study
Preference Rankings on Several Attributes
Structuring the Image
Spatial Patterns in Suburban Evaluations
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2021 (50) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |