Basic-Level Geographic Categories∗

Lloyd, Robert; Patton, David K.; Cammack, Rex G.

doi:10.1111/j.0033-0124.1996.00181.x

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“…Home as Center of Identity Organized by Lloyd, Patton, & Cammack (1996), place can be structured by a hierarchy of home, neighborhood, city, region, and country. Yet home often remains at the center of the hierarchy.…”

Section: Home As Castlementioning

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Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families

Akesson

2014

Glob Soc Welf

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Many children in Palestine live in an environment characterized by the constant threat of violence in their homes, schools, and neighborhood communities. It is within this context that an examination of the meaning of home is relevant. For home tends to represent a beloved and "safe" place for children in families in the context of political violence. Yet, as this paper illustrates, the meaning of home is much more complicated, and can be both positive and negative. Drawing from qualitative research with 18 families living in Palestine, home is first considered as a positive physical space, or a castle, for families affected by occupation and political violence. As a castle, home serves as (1) a site of family practices, (2) a center of identity, and (3) a place of protection. Secondly, this paper will conceptualize home as a cage for many of these same families, exploring (1) the unhealthy conditions that families live in, (2) the lack of privacy that characterizes many homes, and (3) the feeling that one is a prisoner within one's home. The paper ends by suggesting how practitioners and policymakers can better understand children and families multiple meanings of home in order to encourage the positive and mitigate the negative elements of home.

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Section: Home As Castlementioning

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Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families

Akesson

2014

Glob Soc Welf

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“…This conceptualization of place is based upon the cognitive categorization of geographic objects proposed by Lloyd et al [37]. They claimed that generic geographic regions, such as "country, region, state, city, neighborhood" in a US context, are basic-level categories that are specific instances of the superordinate category of place [38].…”

Section: Delineating Boundaries Of Placesmentioning

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“Voting with Their Feet”: Delineating the Sphere of Influence Using Social Media Data

Wong

Huang

2017

IJGI

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Delineating regional boundaries for places has a long tradition in geography, urban analysis and regional planning. Its theoretical basis may be traced back to the central place theory. The normative approach, using spatial interaction models, has been used, and the empirical approach, using commuting data, is also popular. While gathering commuting data using traditional methodologies (e.g., surveys) is costly, data capturing people's locations and their thoughts, are widely available through social media platforms. This article demonstrates that Twitter data can be used to delineate boundaries among competing places. A generic approach based on the density of place names mentioned in geo-tagged tweets was proposed to reflect the sphere of influence or dominance of places. Locations with the same levels of influence from competing places constitute the boundaries delineating the regions dominated by the respective places. The method was tested to determine the boundaries between two metropolitan regions, two local cities, and two neighborhoods or communities. Results from these simple case studies demonstrated the validity of the general approach for evaluating existing place boundaries and determining boundaries if they have not been delineated. The method is applicable to different levels of the place hierarchy and has practical values for planning of places of different sizes.

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“…Campbell (2007) further describes the strategy of interpretation of images as a disciplined approach allowing images of objects on a slide to be connected with their real appearance. The strategy of reading images is influenced by previous experience; the visual interpretation of non-experts is a more intuitive process whereas specialists proceed logically and step by step (Maruff et al, 1999;Rosch, 1973;Rosch and Mervis, 1975;Lloyd, Patton and Cammack, 1996). For visual interpretation the user is an active subject of the whole interpretation, where all his or her unique qualities, knowledge and skills are applied.…”

Section: Visual Interpretation Of Image Datamentioning

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Analysis of Visual Interpretation of Satellite Data

Svatonova¹

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Millions of people of all ages and expertise are using satellite and aerial data as an important input for their work in many different fields. Satellite data are also gradually finding a new place in education, especially in the fields of geography and in environmental issues. The article presents the results of an extensive research in the area of visual interpretation of image data carried out in the years 2013 -2015 in the Czech Republic. The research was aimed at comparing the success rate of the interpretation of satellite data in relation to a) the substrates (to the selected colourfulness, the type of depicted landscape or special elements in the landscape) and b) to selected characteristics of users (expertise, gender, age). The results of the research showed that (1) false colour images have a slightly higher percentage of successful interpretation than natural colour images, (2) colourfulness of an element expected or rehearsed by the user (regardless of the real natural colour) increases the success rate of identifying the element (3) experts are faster in interpreting visual data than non-experts, with the same degree of accuracy of solving the task, and (4) men and women are equally successful in the interpretation of visual image data.

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Basic-Level Geographic Categories∗

Cited by 35 publications

References 23 publications

Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families

Castle and Cage: Meanings of Home for Palestinian Children and Families

“Voting with Their Feet”: Delineating the Sphere of Influence Using Social Media Data

Analysis of Visual Interpretation of Satellite Data

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