Just down the road a piece: The development of topological knowledge of building layouts

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 132-160

  Haq, Saif ^a   Zimring, Craig ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL COGNITION; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 0037229126     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916502238868     Document Type: Article

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