Adults, Adolescents, And Architects

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Abstract
The main objective of this article is to contribute to theory development and methodology with respect to perceptual schemes and their influence on judgment and evaluation of the urban environment. Three groups-comprising adults, adolescents, and architects-were formed to answer the main problem: To what degree and in what way do perceptual schemes of these groups differ? We constructed an instrument for content analysis on information gathered by means of in-depth interviews and tested it on reliability. A statistical analysis resulted in highly significant differences between the three groups. Within the perceptual schemes of adolescents immediate sensation of stimuli appears to be relatively important. Significance of specified spatial qualities appears to be characteristic of the perceptual schemes of architects. The position of adults is an intermediate one, but interpretation and meaning are relatively important in their perception of the environment.