Cognitive affordances in sustainable urbanism: contributions of space syntax and spatial cognition

Journal of Urban Design

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 439-452

  Marcus, Lars ^a   Giusti, Matteo ^b   Barthel, Stephan ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL COGNITION; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84976298022     PISSN: 13574809     EISSN: 14699664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2016.1184565     Document Type: Article

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