Open AccessPerceived density : how apartment dwellers view their surroundings
Author(s) -
Annie Moch,
Florence Bordas,
Danièle Hermand
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
cybergeo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.16
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1278-3366
DOI - 10.4000/cybergeo.294
Subject(s) - apartment , neighbourhood (mathematics) , population density , geography , plot (graphics) , population , sociology , statistics , demography , mathematics , engineering , civil engineering , mathematical analysis
Among urban issues, the question of density has always been considered crucial. Most often, discussions centre on whether to increase or reduce the density of certain neighbourhoods. However, an important distinction must first be made between objective density on the one hand - a statistical indicator providing population, housing, or employment figures for a given surface of land (block, plot of land, neighbourhood), and subjective density on the other - how people experience population de..