The aim of this paper is to investigate the mental maps of the residential preference and the information surfaces, and their's relationships in Korea.
The data were collected in Pusan City, from July to September, 1983. The respondents were pupils a...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the mental maps of the residential preference and the information surfaces, and their's relationships in Korea.
The data were collected in Pusan City, from July to September, 1983. The respondents were pupils and students, who had continuously resided in Pusan City since their birth.
They were asked to take a piece of papers, and then write down as quickly as they could, in a timed five minutes, all the names of towns they could think of in Korea. Next, map-questionnaires that the national-scale space is divided into 30 sub-regions were given out to them, and then were asked to record their rank-order preferences based on the residential desirability.
The main results are summarized as follows.
1) The Pusan region, the perception point, is the most desirable at all the age level, and regions located on the Kyung-Pu Axis that Seoul, Taegeon, Taegu and Pusan region are contineously linked are estimated more and more desirbly with an increase of age. In contrast, the desirability for the regions such as Youngsuh, inland of Youngnam, Honam and the adjacent area of the D.M.Z. is lowed with age. (Fig.2∼Fig.5)
2) With an increase of age, the geographic information is acquired gradually, therefore the information surface is risen. Such tendency appeared distinctively in the regions that the larger cities are located or the recreational image is apparent. Consequently, the information surface of the regions located on the Kyung-Pu Axis and the southeastern coast region is distinctively formed very high. (Fig.6∼Fig.9)
3) The relationships of the mental maps and the information surfaces are considerably high at all the age level. And the gain of the information on each regions with age are not always positively related to the desirability. It is found that the regions located on the Kyung-Pu Axis and the East Coast show a positive correlation, but inland of Youngnam, Honam and the adjacent area of D.M.Z. are negative. (Fig.2∼Fig.9)
As a conclusion, it is inferred that such results are to be related closely to the characteristics of present spatial system in Korea.