University students’ perceptions of the inner cities of Murcia and Valencia
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2018-09
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Inner city perceptions create a mental representation from different approaches: a visual approach, carried
out through observation and description; a second approach, focused on evaluation and analysis of a city; and a third
approach, which integrates the feelings that a space evokes in individuals known as the sense of the place. In the final
analysis the aforementioned approach condition the behaviour (action-decision) of individuals. Image capture mainly
happens while people walk in, travel to or visit a city using different ways to get around and they organize a mental
map of the city. University students were selected from two Spanish cities: Murcia (215 respondents) and Valencia (300
respondents) to reply to a survey and to draw a map of their city. Results of the images of the cities in which they were
currently living also proved useful in providing guidelines on sustainable growth of cities and in detecting deficiencies
in order to correct them. The research model could be used in other cities throughout the world.
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geography of perception, mental maps, sense of place, Murcia, Valencia
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 37 (3), 2018, pp. 75-85