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Why Can the Image of the City be Formed?

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems 2013-07-17 v2

Abstract

The aim of this short paper is to summarize my recent preprint (arXiv:1209.1112), in which I proposed a novel and probably controversial view about cognitive mapping; that is, the image of the city out of the underlying scaling of city artifacts or locations. The scaling refers to a recurring structure of far more small things than large ones. In this paper, I attempt to further clarify the central argument, and identify some possible areas of misunderstanding for readers.

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@article{arxiv.1212.3703,
  title  = {Why Can the Image of the City be Formed?},
  author = {Bin Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3703},
  year   = {2013}
}