Landscapes are changing, with rural areas becoming increasingly urbanized. Children and adolescents are underrepresented in the sense-of-place literature. Our study aimed to understand how adolescent residents of a rural–urban transition area perceive and value their urbanizing landscape by examining sense of place and perceptions of landscape change. A Public Participation GIS approach, accompanied by a questionnaire survey, was applied to elicit responses from a sample of 747 students aged 12–18 in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid (Spain). Respondents’ sense of “self-in-place” or home range was small, around 1 km, although valued places were identified up to around 17 km away, and occasionally further afield. Most responses were associated with urban land, with clear difference between the urban core, strongly associated with emotions, and the suburbs, with activities. Functional locations (i.e. sports facilities) and places which were valued for their social meaning (i.e. shopping malls), could be differentiated. Students were perceptive about change processes in the urban area, but not about those on the peripheral semi-natural land. Younger children were less aware than older children of spaces outside of the town and carried out fewer activities there. Females carried out fewer outdoor activities than male adolescents. In contrast to the adult population, students were more strongly focused on urban areas than on their surrounding rural landscapes. Here, awareness-raising and incentives are needed, particularly those encouraging females into the use of areas beyond the urban land. Our results suggest a lack of meaningful integration between the core city and the periphery, with lessons for urban planners.

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绘制城乡过渡区青少年的地方感和变化感知

景观正在发生变化，农村地区越来越城市化。儿童和青少年在地方感文学中的代表性不足。我们的研究旨在通过检查地方感和景观变化的感知来了解城乡过渡地区的青少年居民如何看待和评价他们的城市化景观。公众参与 GIS 方法连同问卷调查被应用于从 747 名 12-18 岁在马德里（西班牙）的 12-18 岁学生组成的样本中进行回应。受访者对“自我就地”或家庭范围的感觉很小，约为 1 公里，尽管在 17 公里外确定了有价值的地方，有时甚至更远。大多数反应与城市土地相关，城市核心与情绪强烈相关，郊区与郊区之间存在明显差异，与活动。功能性位置（即体育设施）和因其社会意义而受到重视的地方（即购物中心）可以区分。学生对城市地区的变化过程有洞察力，但对外围半自然土地的变化过程没有感知。与年龄较大的孩子相比，年幼的孩子对镇外空间的了解较少，在那里进行的活动较少。女性进行的户外活动少于男性青少年。与成年人口相比，学生更关注城市地区而不是周围的乡村景观。在这里，需要提高认识和激励措施，特别是鼓励女性使用城市土地以外的地区。我们的研究结果表明，核心城市和外围城市之间缺乏有意义的整合，