ABSTRACT
In this chapter we turn our attention to residential
settings to show how experiential landscape
mapping techniques can be used to read aspects of
their experiential potential. Where people live
and what they experience there probably matters
most to them in terms of sustaining a general
sense of well-being and we have argued that what-
ever else might be involved, good health, family
and social relations, economic stability, for
example, this is partially, yet crucially, related to
being able to orientate, become aware of one’s own
neighbourhood, and be able to attach meaning and
significance to particular locations. Routine expo-
sure to these experiences provides foundations
from which neighbourhoods form and where
communities may establish and be sustained, or
indeed fail to be. Our contention is that the expe-
riential potential of a residential setting in this
respect, to a limited degree, lies implicit in its
spatial configuration and this can be read by
recording and mapping the distribution of CDTA
for particular settings.
