The Evolution of Young People's Spatial Knowledge

Young people actively engage with and produce space, acquiring and producing spatial knowledge through diverse experiences. This dynamic process is shaped by various conditions, and a qualitative meta-analysis explores the changes in young people's spatial knowledge over the past five decades. Sixty published studies were analyzed to provide a meta-interpretation of the evolution and refiguration of spaces, appealing to scholars in childhood and youth studies, urban studies, and related disciplines.

Format: Hardback
Length: 308 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Young people imagine, perceive, experience, talk about, use, and produce space in a wide variety of ways. In doing so, they acquire and produce stocks of spatial knowledge. A quite dynamic and ever-changing process by nature, young people’s production and acquisition of spatial knowledge are susceptible to many kinds of conditions—from those that shape their everyday routines to those that constitute historical turning points. Against this backdrop and drawing on a qualitative metaanalysis, the authors set out to discover what changes the spatial knowledge of young people has undergone during the past five decades. To that end, sixty published studies were sampled, analyzed, and synthesized to offer a meta-interpretation in terms of both the evolution of young people’s spatial knowledge and the refiguration of spaces. As such, this book will appeal to scholars conducting spatial research on childhood and youth as well as scholars interested in urban studies from diverse disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban planning, and design.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The Open Access fee was funded by Technische Universität Berlin

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367568658