ABSTRACT
A pilot study using a modification of Kelly’s Rep Test that asked subjects to apply a set of their own constructs to a set of environments known to them investigated how graduate students in architecture, urban studies or planning and graduate students in other fields construed physical environments. Significant organizational and content differences were found between the environmental verbal construct systems of the two groups and between the results of this study and semantic differential studies. Methodological and theoretical issues and practical implications for lay-professional interactions are discussed.
