Relevance of the Subject. City image and the way an individual perceives the surrounding urban environment interested many thinkers in different epochs. In the 20th century, scholars in various fields have started taking interest in this area of knowledge. The following branches of science made a significant contribution to the investigation and formation of city image – behavioural, environmental psychology and sociology, sociology of architecture, environmental planning, as well as sustainable planning, ecology, architecture, urban planning and other branches of science. Environmental psychology is one of the branches of science, which is most closely related to this sphere. Major works in the field of environmental psychology were presented to the world by I. Altman, the British geographer J. Appleton, who proposed the habitat theory, A. De Botton, K. Franck, R. Gifford, J. J. Gibson who formulated the concept of affordance, R. Hart, B. Hiller who investigated the syntax of space, C. R. Jeffery who studied the possibilities of crime prevention in planning the urban environment, R. Kaplan and S. Kaplan, C. Katz, S. Low, K. Lynch who introduced the forming of mental maps, H. Proshansky, A. Rapoport, L. Rivlin, S. Saegert, R. Ulrich, G. Winkel, and other.
K. Lynch who investigated the subject of the present work most closely defined place image as a simple, purely physical conception of identification, which can be transformed into exclusiveness and recognisability... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070403_103412-79063 |
| Date | 03 April 2007 |
| Creators | Kirvaitienė, Salvinija |
| Contributors | Buivydas, Rimantas, Vanagas, Jurgis, Jablonskienė, Lolita, Zaleckis, Kęstutis, Miškinis, Algimantas, Rubavičius, Vytautas, Juškevičius, Pranciškus, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070403_103412-79063 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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