The paper briefly introduces research progress on urban mental maps, and aims to promote studies on city image in the field of residential community. It chooses eight communities in Nanjing and divides them into 4 comparative groups, each of which is constituted by a gated community and an open one neighboring with each other; conducts questionnaire surveys on the residents about their social attributes, living habits, community spatial cognition, and does data extraction and statistics from 250 sketch maps. On this basis, it analyses the main types and elements of mental maps of residential communities in Nanjing and summarizes differences between mental maps at the micro-level community and the macro-level city in the aspects of spatial structure and expression ways. The paper divides mental maps of communities into three types: topological structure, spatial structure and mixed structure between them; identifies the elements of mental maps into four types: path, domain, edge and landmark. Research shows that residents' social attribute is the decisive element for spatial image of community and the difference of gender, age, income and residential duration results in the difference of residents' spatial cognition and mental maps; the difference of mental maps between residents from a gated community and those from an open one in the same area is mainly caused by the difference of their age structure, social economic status and daily spatial activity areas.Furthermore, different modes of residential structure also have influences on residents' spatial cognition. Residents from a gated community have a strong cognition for walls and gates of their community, and those from an open one are more familiar with the surrounding environment of it. Finally, this paper suggests that the managing mode of a gated community hinders the association of residents from different communities and their social integration, though it helps to enhance residents' sense of safety and space field.
SONG Wei-xuan, LU Chen, XU Di
. Study on spatial image of community based on comparison of 250 sketch maps drawn by residents in Nanjing[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, 2011
, 30(4)
: 709
-722
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DOI: 10.11821/yj2011040013
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