Social trajectory and socio-spatial representation of urban space: The relation between social and cognitive structures

Dias, Pierre; Ramadier, Thierry

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.12.002

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“…Our findings also suggest that respondents with higher levels of education reported larger self‐defined neighbourhoods, in line with previous research . One possibility is that better educated residents may experience greater mobility in terms of frequency and distance, and at the same time live in places with greater access to urban opportunities such as services, transportation and social activities . As reported in previous studies , no relation was observed between size of self‐defined neighbourhood and employment status.…”

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Self‐defined residential neighbourhoods: size variations and correlates across five European urban regions

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SummaryThe neighbourhood is recognized as an important unit of analysis in research on the relation between obesogenic environments and development of obesity. One important challenge is to define the limits of the residential neighbourhood, as perceived by study participants themselves, in order to improve our understanding of the interaction between contextual features and patterns of obesity. An innovative tool was developed in the framework of the SPOTLIGHT project to identify the boundaries of neighbourhoods as defined by participants in five European urban regions. The aims of this study were (i) to describe self-defined neighbourhood (size and overlap with predefined residential area) according to the characteristics of the sampling administrative neighbourhoods (residential density and socioeconomic status) within the five study regions and (ii) to determine which individual or/and environmental factors are associated with variations in size of self-defined neighbourhoods. Self-defined neighbourhood size varies according to both individual factors (age, educational level, length of residence and attachment to neighbourhood) and contextual factors. These findings have consequences for how residential neighbourhoods are defined and operationalized and can inform how self-defined neighbourhoods may be used in research on associations between contextual characteristics and health outcomes such as obesity.

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Self‐defined residential neighbourhoods: size variations and correlates across five European urban regions

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“…Other researches have analyzed the relationship between urban mobility and sustainability [44], spatial perception and mobility [45], and the influence of the centrality of tourism resources [1]. All these factors have been addressed in this work as factors which impact sustainability.…”

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Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Urban Destinations: Does Space Matter?

2016

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Policy makers and tourism developers must understand visitors' mobility behavior and how they consume space and tourism resources in order to set up sustainable cultural tourism destinations. With this in mind, it should also be pointed out that the mobility patterns of tourists in urban destinations are mainly located in the city center (spatial centrality), the analysis of which enables us to define "how central" the resources (museums, monuments, etc.) are and what the interactions between them are. Comprehending which factors influence visitors' urban mobility behavior is key to understanding tourists' consumption of space and their connections with the tourism assets of the city. Furthermore, when tourists visit a destination, they make a mental representation of the destination, constructing a mental map of it. Thus, tourists consume not only spaces but also the image of a city/destination. Moreover, the latter influences the former. The quality of surrounding architecture and urbanism plays a crucial role in enhancing the experiential value of a destination and influencing space consumption preferences. Clearly, visitors are more likely to use/consume environments that are easily navigated and mentally legible. In order to explore these patterns, a real experiment was performed based on visitor behavior in the city of Bilbao. In addition, the central places of Bilbao were determined and an analysis of the spatial interaction between cultural sites was performed, making use of a new methodology based on GPS technologies, network analysis, and surveys. This methodology is the main contribution of this work. The results suggest that (1) easy mobility (walkability, accessibility, different transport modes) of the visited space facilitates the tourist experience; (2) simple and eligible mental maps of the city that are easily perceived by visitors facilitate the rapid consumption of the tourist destination; and (3) the centrality of the tourism resources affects the mobility of visitors and the consumption of the destination. Thus, by understanding how tourist mobility works in a destination and analyzing tourism resources' centrality, policy makers may better tailor sustainable strategies for cultural tourism destinations.

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“…As a result, social significations of space are also organized hierarchically (Hirtle & Jonides, 1985;Hirtle & Mascolo, 1986) according to spatial positions (Bourdieu, 1993). This makes it possible to envision that the schemes of spatial cognitive processing are social dispositions that steer relationships to geographical space (Dias & Ramadier, 2015. Thus, spatial (or sociospatial) representation organizes spatial information on the basis of the socio-cognitive process of categorization and of the double (social and spatial) stance that it generates.…”

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Representational Structures as Stances: Examining Relationships to the City Under the Lens of Socio-Spatial Representations

Dias¹,

Ramadier²

2018

International Review of Social Psychology

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This paper puts spatial cognition to the test of the social representations paradigm, drawing on insights from the positional and structural approaches of representation, to complement existing findings on social groups pre-constructed on the basis of an approach focused on the social cognition of space. 1 We posit the hypothesis that different relationships to urban space and their underlying spatial representations relate to distinct social positions. To confirm this, we developed a quasi-experimental method based on a questionnaire inducing hierarchized mentions of places in Strasbourg, submitted to employees with different statuses in the same institution, the University of Strasbourg. Five spatial representations are identified using hierarchical agglomerative clustering and described in prototypical analyses. Relationships to urban space are also investigated using an analysis of the functional and/or evaluative dimensions of representations. The sociological characteristics associated with each type of representation support the general hypothesis of a structural homology between spatial representations and social positions. The structure of the representational content (places) of Strasbourg indeed varies according to the socio-occupational status, level of education and age of the agents of the University of Strasbourg. The relationship to space of members of the lower social classes is instrumental, whereas that of the most economically and culturally privileged is symbolic/aesthetic. The salient features of spatial representation and their functional and/or evaluative dimension are the cognitive components of a stance that inseparably relates to the individual's social position.

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Social trajectory and socio-spatial representation of urban space: The relation between social and cognitive structures

Cited by 24 publications

References 35 publications

Self‐defined residential neighbourhoods: size variations and correlates across five European urban regions

Self‐defined residential neighbourhoods: size variations and correlates across five European urban regions

Sustainable Cultural Tourism in Urban Destinations: Does Space Matter?

Representational Structures as Stances: Examining Relationships to the City Under the Lens of Socio-Spatial Representations

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