Urban distance cognition: review and contribution

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Abstract
Apart from the identification of a general tendency to overestimate distances there has been only limited agreement between published papers on urban distance cognition. Major contributions are reviewed and it is hypothesized that variations in results are attributable to the application of different measurement techniques. A number of methods are compared at different urban scales in Sydney and Armidale (N.S.W.) and it is established that while choice of technique is not generally significant, variations between sample groups may be attributed to extremely large within‐group variances. Although the experiments illustrated a general tendency for overestimation to be reduced by familiarity it is concluded that future research should be more concerned with individual variations than with somewhat misleading average estimates.

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