Urban Cognition

Author : Juval Portugali,Egbert Stolk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319326535

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Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design by Juval Portugali,Egbert Stolk Pdf

This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step in responding to the challenge of generating just such a discourse, based on a dilemma identified in the CTC (Complexity Theories of Cities) domain. The latter has demonstrated that cities exhibit the properties of natural, organic complex systems: they are open, complex and bottom-up, have fractal structures and are often chaotic. CTC have further shown that many of the mathematical formalisms and models developed to study material and organic complex systems also apply to cities. The dilemma in the current state of CTC is that cities differ from natural complex systems in that they are hybrid complex systems composed, on the one hand, of artifacts such as buildings, roads and bridges, and of natural human agents on the other. This raises a plethora of new questions on the difference between the natural and the artificial, the cognitive origin of human action and behavior, and the role of planning and designing cities. The answers to these questions cannot come from a single discipline; they must instead emerge from a discourse between experts from several disciplines engaged in CTC.

Author : Tommy Gärling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Psychology
ISBN : IND:30000050905524

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Urban Cognition by Tommy Gärling Pdf

Consists of papers previously published in the Journal of environmental psychology.

Author : Juval Portugali
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783642194511

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Complexity, Cognition and the City by Juval Portugali Pdf

Complexity, Cognition and the City aims at a deeper understanding of urbanism, while invoking, on an equal footing, the contributions both the hard and soft sciences have made, and are still making, when grappling with the many issues and facets of regional planning and dynamics. In this work, the author goes beyond merely seeing the city as a self-organized, emerging pattern of some collective interaction between many stylized urban "agents" – he makes the crucial step of attributing cognition to his agents and thus raises, for the first time, the question on how to deal with a complex system composed of many interacting complex agents in clearly defined settings. Accordingly, the author eventually addresses issues of practical relevance for urban planners and decision makers. The book unfolds its message in a largely nontechnical manner, so as to provide a broad interdisciplinary readership with insights, ideas, and other stimuli to encourage further research – with the twofold aim of further pushing back the boundaries of complexity science and emphasizing the all-important interrelation of hard and soft sciences in recognizing the cognitive sciences as another necessary ingredient for meaningful urban studies.

Author : Ole Möystad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317282846

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Cognition and the Built Environment by Ole Möystad Pdf

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning, is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. The assumption is that we and our built environment together form an intelligent system, a cognitive feedback loop between us and the world of which we are part. With this as a vantage point, the book discusses the meaning and intelligence of concrete architectural environments as well as the agency of the architect, of his client and of the user. The inquiry oscillates between abstract thought, topological models and cognitive semiotics, between pragmatist philosophy and the professional practice of planning cities, developing projects and using objects. Architecture serves more complex purposes than our caves, paths and landmarks did. Written for students and academics of urban design, urban planning and architectural theory, Cognition and the Built Environment argues that human cognition feeds on the interaction between thought, agency and built environment, and that architecture is the spatial form of this interaction.

Author : Marta Szulkin,Jason Munshi-South,Anne Charmantier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198836841

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Urban Evolutionary Biology by Marta Szulkin,Jason Munshi-South,Anne Charmantier Pdf

Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. The growing rate of urbanization and the maturation of urban study systems worldwide means interest in the urban environment as an agent of evolutionary change is rapidly increasing. We are presently witnessing the emergence of a new field of research in evolutionary biology. Despite its rapid global expansion, the urban environment has until now been a largely neglected study site among evolutionary biologists. With its conspicuously altered ecological dynamics, it stands in stark contrast to the natural environments traditionally used as cornerstones for evolutionary ecology research. Urbanization can offer a great range of new opportunities to test for rapid evolutionary processes as a consequence of human activity, both because of replicate contexts for hypothesis testing, but also because cities are characterized by an array of easily quantifiable environmental axes of variation and thus testable agents of selection. Thanks to a wide possible breadth of inference (in terms of taxa) that may be studied, and a great variety of analytical methods, urban evolution has the potential to stand at a fascinating multi-disciplinary crossroad, enriching the field of evolutionary biology with emergent yet incredibly potent new research themes where the urban habitat is key. Urban Evolutionary Biology is an advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers studying the genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology of urban environments. It is also highly relevant to urban ecologists and urban wildlife practitioners.

Author : Priya Choudhary
Publisher : Copal Publishing Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789383419210

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Humane Approach to Urban Planning by Priya Choudhary Pdf

The book is an effort to evolve and present a humane approach for urban planning practices in India. The planning approach followed in India, mostly, ignores the cultural peculiarities, habits, preferences of Indian users. This is mainly because the city planning –preparation of development plans – is based on the planning norms formulated in Europe or North America. Due to socioeconomic, demographic and cultural differences in Indian context, the Indian users and their preferences are very much different. It may be useful to incorporate culture-specific user aspects and evolve a humane approach to city planning in India. The consideration of user preferences will not only reduce conflicting situations in urban areas due to non-congruence between planning principles adopted and principles of urbanism rooted in the place, but will also help to develop living social environments in developing cities. Hence in the book, a study about user preferences is presented. It brought out few facts about the peculiarities of Indian users, their preferences and Indian principles of urbanism, which is discussed in the book. The study establishes the fact that there are culture-specific user preferences in Indian context. It further evolves framework for humane approach to deal evolving built environments in urban India.

Author : R. Lloyd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401730440

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Spatial Cognition by R. Lloyd Pdf

10.2 Summary of Ideas ..................................................... 256 10.2.1 Spatial Behavior As Rules For Decision Making ................................... 258 10.2.2. Cognitive Mapping ......................................................................... 258 10.2.3. Storing Information ................................................. " ...................... 260 10.2.4. Searching ..................................................................................... 260 10.2.5. Learning ........................................................................................ 261 10.2.6. Judging Similarity .......................................................................... 261 10.2.7 Neural Geographic Information Science (NGIS) .................................... 262 REFERENCES ............................................... 265 INDEX ........................ .............. 279 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................... 287 x LIST OF TABLES Table 8.1: The types of similarity comparisons created for the experiment to determine the effect ofx as a first or second common or distinctive feature (Lloyd, Rostkowska-Covington, and Steinke 1996). Table 9.1: Data used to compute the gravity model using regression and a neural network. Data for all variables are scaled so that the highest value equals 0.9 and the lowest value equals 0.1. Table 9.2: Class means for 11 socio-economic and life-cycle variables for the Black, Integrated, and White classes. Table 9.3: Weights for neuron at row 5 and column 1 that learned the blue horizontal rectangle map symbol. LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: Spatial cognition is a research area of interest for both geography and psychology. Both disciplines are interested in fundamental ideas related to encoding processes, internal representations, and decoding processes. Figure 1.2: The place names on this map of New Orleans depict the propositions used for navigation by local residents. A similar map appeared in the June 30, 1991, edition of The Times-Picayune.

Author : Shirley Jeanette Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025658951

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Navajo Cognition in the Urban Milieu by Shirley Jeanette Fiske Pdf

Author : Christian Freksa,Bernhard Nebel,Mary Hegarty,Thomas Barkowsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319112152

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Spatial Cognition IX by Christian Freksa,Bernhard Nebel,Mary Hegarty,Thomas Barkowsky Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2014, held in Bremen, Germany, in September 2014. The 27 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatial memory; language and communication; wayfinding and navigation; computational models; diagrams and maps; technical approaches; and spatial ability.

Author : Nigel Foreman,Raphael Gillett
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 9780863777998

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Handbook of Spatial Research Paradigms and Methodologies: Spatial cognition in the child and adult by Nigel Foreman,Raphael Gillett Pdf

Part of a two-volume handbook reviewing the major paradigms used in each of the contributors' research areas of spatial cognition.

Author : Predrag Sidjanin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : UOM:39015061471705

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A Cognitive Framework for an Urban Environment Design Tool by Predrag Sidjanin Pdf

Author : Kalpana Markandey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Central places
ISBN : UOM:39015041637599

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Spatial Cognition in Urban Development by Kalpana Markandey Pdf

Study relates to residents of Hyderabad City, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Author : Paul Knox,Steven Pinch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317903260

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Urban Social Geography by Paul Knox,Steven Pinch Pdf

The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explores how it has developed into the modern day. Taking account of recent critical work, whilst simultaneously presenting well established approaches to the subject, it ensures students are well-informed about all the issues. The result is a topical book that is clear and accessible for students

Author : Patricia García
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031427985

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Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism by Patricia García Pdf

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134926732

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The Development of Spatial Cognition by Robert Cohen Pdf

First published in 1985. The present book represents a statement of the state of the art in a very important aspect of spatial cognition, its development.