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The cognitive map's role in urban planning and landscaping: application to Braila City, Romania
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Abstract Spatial planning and urban planning represent aspects of urban dynamics. They have a complex character and aim to identify some ways of eliminating the territorial disparities, for ensuring the territorial functionality, following up the sustainable development principles. The territorial reality, t... view more
Spatial planning and urban planning represent aspects of urban dynamics. They have a complex character and aim to identify some ways of eliminating the territorial disparities, for ensuring the territorial functionality, following up the sustainable development principles. The territorial reality, that is to be investigated for this purpose, can be represented using the mental maps that present the subjective perception of the residents on the environment where they are living. This cognitive perception out lines an urban overview that reflects the local failures. Therefore, the urban overview can function as an instrument of urban rebranding, by its diagnosis and prognosis functions. As regards Brăila City, attractive, repulsive and neutral spaces were ident ified, being created in this way the premises for the appearance of some strategies of territorial planning, in accordance with reality.... view less
Keywords
spatial planning; urban planning; landscape planning; sustainable development; urban development; spatial orientation; regional difference; city quarter; city center; city outskirts; public opinion; Romania
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
mental map; topophile spaces; topophobe spaces; VPS
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 137-157
Journal
Cinq Continents, 4 (2014) 10
ISSN
2247-2290
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution