ABSTRACT
The rich and varying habitats and life spaces of this planned city provide different age groups with unique challenges—an ideal setting for combining the research efforts of a developmental psychologist and an environmental psychologist. The relationship between method and content varies considerably in social sciences. In some fields of study, one defines the other, as in the case of experimental analysis of behavior. The significance of place presents yet another important facet of the person-environment relationship, as is reflected in studies of place attachment and place identity. The former is based on an intense familiarity with place, while the latter, almost as a consequence, contributes to the larger concept of self, of who we are. Additionally, when describing the shape and composition of the life spaces that she was able to identify on the basis of the children’s responses, she primarily used what Kevin Lynch would later call paths, edges, and districts.
