This paper discusses the relationship between the spatial structure of the built environment and people’s memory of the city as derived from their perceptual knowledge. We explore how spatial comprehension is influenced by the spatial layout pattern in urban settings and individuals’ daily activities. In doing so, we seek to determine whether better spatial knowledge is a function of the legibility of the city and of temporal factors, particularly the amount of time spent in a place. For this purpose, we created a web-based visual survey in the form of a geo-guessing game. The participants were asked to guess the locations of random street views within a familiar neighborhood by placing a pin on a map. This system enabled us to measure how well they remember different urban images on the basis of two indicators of spatial familiarity: location identification and visual recognition. Thus, the resulting datasets are quantitatively different from those collected manually by traditional techniques. By analyzing the combination of the quantitative and qualitative datasets, our proposed methodology can clarify previously unknown aspects of the cognitive role in exploring the built environment and on hidden patterns embedded in the relationship between the city’s spatial elements and people’s mental maps.

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量化记忆：映射城市感知

本文讨论了建筑环境的空间结构与人们从其感知知识中得出的城市记忆之间的关系。我们探索了空间理解如何受到城市环境和个人日常活动中空间布局模式的影响。在此过程中，我们试图确定更好的空间知识是否与城市的易读性以及时间因素有关，特别是与某个地方所花费的时间有关。为此，我们以地理猜测游戏的形式创建了基于网络的视觉调查。要求参与者通过在地图上放置图钉来猜测熟悉的社区中随机街道视图的位置。该系统使我们能够基于两个空间熟悉度指标来衡量他们对不同城市图像的记忆能力：位置识别和视觉识别。因此，所得数据集在数量上与传统技术手动收集的数据集不同。通过分析定量和定性数据集的组合，我们提出的方法可以阐明以前未知的认知方面，在探索建筑环境中以及嵌入在城市空间要素与人的心理图之间的关系中的隐藏模式方面。