Environmental perception and space legibility: a study in the university context

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https://doi.org/10.5216/ag.v16i1.70386

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The disorderly production of urban space generates negative consequences on the well-being and quality of life of the inhabitants, promoting environmental damage that can be irreversible. The article aims to analyze the environmental perception in the university environment and understand how the space's legibility helps in the environmental perception. It is an applied and exploratory research, using fieldwork with a qualitative approach; data were obtained through interviews and participant observation. Respondents were divided into three classes: student, teacher and employee. They were asked about the meaning of the Campus, distinctive elements of the place, indications of the most common route taken by the interviewees and justifications for the indications of the distinctive elements. Positive definitions prevailed in the classifications about the meaning of the Campus, being: broad and afforestation/trees, mentioned by 25% of the interviewees. The results obtained indicate that mental maps were important and effective instruments to identify the construction of spatial knowledge and readability by students, teachers and servers on the campus.

Keywords: Landscape. Urban space. University. Green areas.

 

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2022-04-20

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PERUZZO GUSMAN , S. . .; MARQUES RAMOS, A. P. .; AZEVEDO ARANA, A. R. . Environmental perception and space legibility: a study in the university context. Ateliê Geográfico Journal, Goiânia, v. 16, n. 1, p. 233 –, 2022. DOI: 10.5216/ag.v16i1.70386. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/atelie/article/view/70386. Acesso em: 16 aug. 2024.

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