خلاصة:
Theories of urban development have mentioned many advantages for using a structural approach. However, intuitive (and not objective) methods have been used to determine the main structure, which is essentiallyconsidered equivalent to the main passage network and public utilities. Since the mental conceptual structureis considered in a way that its components are combined to gether as a whole, the present study aims todevelop an objective mechanism for extracting the mental structure of people about texture. Accordingly,this research seeks to answer the question that which elements and objective analysis have a greater impacton the explanation of the existing structures in the cognitive maps. In this regard, cognitive maps of peoplewere collected through drawings and interviews, and the structure was extracted in three physical, functional
and semantic dimensions. The analysis of the spatial values associated with the network of passages andland use in the geographic information system as well as the spatial qualities and relationships were carriedout using spatial analysis. Spatial integration between the mental structures of cognitive maps, on the onehand, and the objective analysis of passages, land uses and spatial layout, on the other hand,showed that“axial depth” analysis explains the physical dimension of mental structure (Correlation = 0.72361, Sig.<0.001), “mean depth of convex space” analysis explains the functional dimension (Correlation = 0.66973,Sig. <0.001) and “Convex Space Integration1” analysis explains the semantic dimension (Correlation =0.44744, Sig. <0.001). Accordingly, it is concluded that objective analyses of the existing urban textures
can be used to explore people’s cognitive maps. Contrary to e x isting theories, this paper showed thatthe segmentation and land use models could not significantly e xplain the structure of cognitive mapswhile spatial analysis has the highest degree of explanation of the structure of cognitive maps. The mainnetwork of passages, in accordance with the existing theory, is still an appropriate explanation for all threedimensions of mental structures of the cognitive maps.
ملخص الجهاز:
Developing an Applied Model for Explaining the Mental Structure of Cognitive Maps of People through Spatial-Morphological Analysis of Existing Urban Textures, Case Study: Historical Texture of Kerman Neda Ghoraba* Manouchehr Tabibian** Abstract Theories of urban development have mentioned many advantages for using a structural approach.
Spatial integration between the mental structures of cognitive maps, on the one hand, and the objective analysis of passages, land uses and spatial layout, on the other hand,showed that "axial depth" analysis explains the physical dimension of men t al structure (Correlation = 0.
The city structure creates an opportunity for all urban functions and types of human communication to be interconnected in an integrated network so that a strong bond is established between the most important urban elements and spaces (Peponis& Ross, 2014).
Like a small number of contemporary researchers (for example, see Karrholm, Nylund & Fuente, 2014), this article tries to present an objective and well-documented method for explaining the main structure of the historical texture, so that there is no need to use intuitive and mental methods to determine it.
In order to predict the city’s structure, the method of space layout can be used to identify the most accessible and isolated routes, so that the city’s structure, movement pattern and cognitive map of pedestrians can be managed optimally (Abubakar & Aina, 2006: 2).
The perceptual clarity of urban spaces is not only important in cognitive aspects but also includes emotional, functional and social issues and affects the emotions of space users (Nold, 2009; Gartner, 2010), their pathways (Roth, Kang & Batty, 2011) and urban activities (Daggitt, Noulas& Shaw, 2016).