TY - BOOK AU - Gould, Peter TI - Mental maps SN - 9780415084826 U1 - 153.32 PY - 1986/// CY - London PB - Routledge N1 - The images of places Where would you really like to live? The nature of different places Relative accessibility and population potential Perception of the environment The geographer and spatial perception Images of Britain The Bristol viewpoint The Sevenoaks viewpoint The Aberystwyth viewpoint The Liverpool viewpoint The Redcar viewpoint The Inverness viewpoint The national surface and the local domes of preference Environmental preferences and regional images in the USA and Canada TTie California viewpoint The Minnesota viewpoint TTie Pennsylvania viewpoint The Alabama viewpoint The North Dakota viewpoint Perception space around Texas and Georgia Environmental images from Illinois Ontario and Quebec Patterns of ignorance, information and learning The ignorance surfaces of North Dakota, Illinois and Petmsylvania The confusion matrix The travel field The information surface Information in Ontario and Quebec, Canada Information in Sweden Man in information space Barriers to information flows Learning and the strength of preference signals The growth of spatial preferences in Western Nigeria 5 Mental maps and administration Allocating people to places Government service in Tanzania Government service in Ghana Chinese and Malayan views of Malaya Smoothing mental maps 6 Mental maps in today's world Implications of mental maps Mental maps and locational decisions Mental maps of the military Changing mental maps The perception of Europe The geographer and education Barriers to information flows Appendix: the construction of mental maps Ranking space preferences The construction of a mental map ER -