ABSTRACT
As a small part of a much larger study investigating residential perception surfaces in Sweden, the preferences of many children were sampled at Jônkoping, a town in south-central Sweden lying at one end of Lake Vâtter and between the three main urban focuses of Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmo (fig. 13.1). The children worked directly upon large maps showing the seventy Α-level, or functional regions, with major roads, towns, and waterbodies shown as a light blue underprinting to give some general orientation. Preferences were recorded on the maps as ranked values from one to seventy, and from a basic data matrix of seventy regions χ Ν children, scores on the principal component of the correlation matrix were calculated for each of the areas. These values were plotted and used as interpolation points to construct a perception surface lying over the map.
