1、3000 英文单词， 1.6 万英文字符 ， 中文 5000 字 文献出处： Suthasupa S . The Portrayal of a Citys Image by Young People J. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 38 ( 2012 ) 284 292. The Portrayal of a Citys Image by Young People Supagtra Suthasupa Abstract It has been noted that young people are better at abstract
2、 thinking than adults; therefore, this paper investigates how young people portray the image of a city. Architecture students, aged 19 to 21, were selected to participate in the study, to assess their views on a part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, running from Silpakorn University to the Southern
3、 Bus Station. Each student was required to draw a map to help a traveler who wants to go to the Southern Bus Station. The results show that several representations styles are used by the students in order to explain their mental images to other people. Keywords: Image of a city; mental image; abstra
4、ct thinking; adolescence 1. Introduction The term youths in this study is used to describe those people who are young in a period of their lives between childhood and maturity that is, they are adolescents. It has been identified that young people build most of their abstract thinking abilities duri
5、ng this development stage, developing a significant ability to think abstractly and to draw conclusions from information available. Youths, and people of all ages, may provide different representations of a subject, which results from the process of abstract thinking. Examples of this may include th
6、e use of numerical notations, language and mental images. For this paper, in which I carry out a study of environmental design and planning, my interest is in the last aspect: mental images. A mental image is made up of a representation of the physical environment and its meaning and values, as perceived by an individual. It can be defined as an individuals mental interpretation of the environment, as known to the individual; therefore, mental images will differ due to age, gender,
