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The Incidence of Home Grounds and Experiential Networks

Some Implications

Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Approximately 40% of 210 residents interviewed on two streets in different localities of New York City felt a distinction between Lee's socio-spatial "neighborhood" and their "home gound": the mental form and geographical extent of those places that evoke a feeling of being near home. Only residents of blocks 460 feet or less in length were able to think of their home ground form as an "experiential network": a street network without continuous boundaries. These findings suggest that cognition of an experiential network may be influenced by a mental time limit; that the concept of home ground may be a useful adjunct to Lee's concept of neighborhood; and that residents' cognitions of familiar places may not be hierarchically ordered.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 18, No. 3, 299-329 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916586183001


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