The mental maps of British school leavers

Residence and place image

“…In a general way this proposition is hardly new; it was established by Gould and White (1968) in the pioneering British study. But by taking the places to the level of local government boundaries it is possible to achieve a rather more refined level of areal discrimination.…”

Attitudes towards the Urban environment: a Melbourne study

“…A strong 'local effect' was also found in a study of the residential preferences of a group of school pupils in Britain. 14 The same writer speculated from the results of a study of the space preferences of North American students that women are less adventurous than men in terms of their residential preferences, tending to prefer areas close to their present residence with which they are relatively familiar. 13 Examination of the questionnaires of the thirty housewives who indicated that they would prefer to live abroad (but not in their home country in the case of immigrants) revealed that 16 had husbands whose birth-place differed from their own; that is, these were cross-nativity marriages, and in some of these cases the preference was to live in the husband's home country.…”

The role of awareness space in urban residential preferences: A case study of Venezuelan youth

“…The studies which have been made touch upon the role of present and past residence (Gould,[11]; Gould and R. White, [15]; Gould, [12]; Jackson and Johnston, [18]), but not on the other components of awareness space. The lack of understanding of this relationship is thus something of a bottleneck in the study of human migration.…”