ABSTRACT
The thesis of this paper is that our knowledge of the spatial environment, the way in which we visualize and symbolize it, is a consequence of our experience in it and with it. Insofar as that experience is shaped by our physical location (and the barriers of space and time associated with that location) and by our social position (and the normative requirements attached to i t ) , our cognition of the environment is likely to be a function of these factors.
