Mots-clés
Amérique du Nord ; Artefact ; Carte mentale ; Echelle ; Espace urbain ; Europe ; Image de la ville ; Localisation ; Morphologie urbaine ; Rue ; TopologieArtifact ; Europe ; Location ; Mental map ; North America ; Perception of the urban environment ; Scale ; Street ; Topology ; Urban area ; Urban morphologyAmérica del Norte ; Artefacto ; Calle ; Escala ; Espacio urbano ; Europa ; Imagen de la ciudad ; Localización ; Mapa mental ; Morfología urbana ; TopologíaThe image of the city out of the underlying scaling of city artifacts or locations
Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)
JIANG, B.
Dept. of Technology and Built Environment, Division of Geomatics, Univ., Gävle, Suede
Description :
This article deals with the external representation of a city; that is, what traits it has that make it imageable. It develops an argument that the image of the city arises from the underlying scaling of city artifacts or locations. The results show that the sizes of city artifacts in a rank-size plot exhibit a heavy-tailed distribution consisting of the head, which is composed of a minority of unique artifacts and the tail, which is composed of redundant other artifacts. It concludes that the ever-increasing amount of geographic information on cities, in particular obtained from social media such as Flickr and Twitter, can turn research on the image of the city, or cognitive mapping in general, into a quantitative manner.
Type de document :
Article de périodique
Source :
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, issn : 0004-5608, 2013, vol. 103, n°. 6, p. 1552-1566, nombre de pages : 15, Références bibliographiques : 2 p.
Date :
2013
Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Washington, DC, Association of American Geographers
Langue :
Anglais
Anglais
Droits :
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