Mapas cognitivos de la ciudad de Barcelona: un análisis longitudinal
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Angela Castrechini [1] ; Enric Pol [1] ; Sergi Valera [1] ; T. Tomeu Vidal [1] ; Andrés Di Masso [1]
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[1] Universitat de Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: Actas del XI Congreso Nacional de Psicología Social: Tarragona, 1, 2 y 3 de octubre de 2009 / coord. por Jordi Tous Pallarès, Joan Manel Fabra Sopeña, Vol. 4, 2009, ISBN 9788469256848
- Idioma: español
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- Cognitive maps of Barcelona city: a longitudinal analysis
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Resumen
The city is an object of complex representation which implies a built notion about aplace full of meanings as well as a group of graphic and cartographic images which weuse in our way-findings. This paper presents the results of a study of cognitiverepresentation of Barcelona. The transformation of the city, initiated in the context ofthe Olympic Games of 1992, has shaped the urban structure of the city changing thesocial dynamics of its residents (what nowadays is well-known as the ‘Barcelonamodel’). This paper aims to analyze these urban transformations focusing on thecognitive maps of its dwellers.The central theoretical background is Kevin Lynch’s book “The image of the city”(1960). The sample included 210 university students from 1988 to 2007. Subjects wereasked to sketch the map of Barcelona including all the elements of the city that come totheir minds. The map should reflect the image that the students have of the city.The analysis consisted of quantitative data: number and variety of elements, typology ofspatial structure, common distortions, represented and not-represented places, specialfeatures, etc.Results show similarities and differences observed among the sketch maps as well asthe registered changes along the period of study: such as old and new features of theurban texture and changes in the city representation
