奈良大学紀要
(Memoirs of the Nara University).
Vol.18号,
(1990.
03)
,p.167-
181
識別番号
ISSN
03892204
抄録
This report is a contribution to a larger research project concerning the city of Nara, designed by the faculty of Social Research of Nara University. It does not deal with Nara as a geographic reality, but rather with the way this city is mirrored in the minds of its inhabitants. At the base of this study, there is the general and common sense premisse which consists in thinking that people have some ideas or images about the city they live in. This is clearly manifested when a stranger asks a resident to guide him/her in an unknown place. As written by Milgran(1984), what makes the newcomer ask the resident is his/her assumption that the person he addresses possesses a "mentalmap" or an "image of the city.
