Space and Meaning of the City-Center Cognition: An Interactional-Transactional Approach

Abstract

We studied the characteristics of space and meaning in the cognition of the city-center shown by the inhabitants of a large city, in relation to their socio-physical positions in the urban environment. We found that the spatial attributes of the city-center cognition become more stereotyped when the “subjective marginality” and the “objective marginality” of the inhabitants increase.