Imageability of cities: a study of maintaining the balance between the preservation of imageability and culture change with special reference to down

Abstract

Man identifies the world in the form of images and these images intern build up his own world. Boulding (1965) describes the image as a mental picture which is a product of experience, attitudes , memories and immediate sensations, which further makes each individual to build a unique image different from another, even regarding a single thing , totally depending on his or her uniqueness of personality. Further these menial images are used to interpret information and to guide behavior, for it offers a relatively stable ordering of relationships between meaningful objects and concepts. A complex of images, such a combination of events, persons, characters and objects as a whole, form the phenomena called the environmental images. The environmental images are a two way process between the observer and the environment. That is; people with their ability to sense and perceive, build images, with in a unique frame work of immediate sensation and memory of past experience and the environment with a capacity of evoking images, stimulate the sensation of people, in building an image.