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Imageability of cities: a study of maintaining the balance between the preservation of imageability and culture change with special reference to down
Alahakoon, H
Man identifies the world in the form of images and these images intern build up his own world. Boulding (1965) describes the image as a mental picture which is a product of experience, attitudes , memories and immediate sensations, which further makes each individual to build a unique image different from another, even regarding a single thing , totally depending on his or her uniqueness of personality. Further these menial images are used to interpret information and to guide behavior, for it offers a relatively stable ordering of relationships between meaningful objects and concepts. A complex of images, such a combination of events, persons, characters and objects as a whole, form the phenomena called the environmental images. The environmental images are a two way process between the observer and the environment. That is; people with their ability to sense and perceive, build images, with in a unique frame work of immediate sensation and memory of past experience and the environment with a capacity of evoking images, stimulate the sensation of people, in building an image.