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Mental maps versus physical cartography
Mental maps are a personal way of representing geographical space: instead of considering a place in its absolute sense, a mental map looks at it in relation with other places emotionally close. Each mental map is particular to the the environmental perception of its author, the images they have of their own life, known places and the way they are connected.
Cognitive maps shows not just where we are and what we know, but who we are. Because of their serendipitous quality, they have a great potential for the discovery of relationships not explicitly intended; they allow appreciating the internalised spatial structure upon which a person is operating. The most significant differences are those between people (or the same person at different points in time) of the same places. “It’s possible to take one geographical area and to demonstrate that it really consists of a set of overlapping places depending on which group of people we are considering. 3” Mental maps are thus interesting indicators of how we interpret our neighbourhood.
3 David Canter, Psychology of Place. Palgrave Macmillan, 1977, p.68
http://www.ctrl-n.net/journal/archives/on-cognitive-mapping/
http://www.fedstats.gov/kids/mapstats/concepts_mentalmaps.html
http://pgh-hash.blogspot.com/2009/04/poon-lim-landing-day-hash.html
http://www.landslidecommunityfarm.org/Landslide_Community_Farm/Home.html
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