| Abstract [eng] |
THE ANALYSIS OF KLAIPEDA OLD TOWN SPACES PERCEPTION AREAS IEVA BAUMILAITE SUMMARY Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensations into meaningful experiences. Perception is the rezult of psychological process in which meaning, context, judment, past experience, and memory are invoked. According to the Lithuanian scientist P. Kavaliauskas, the semantic potential of the envirnment has to be analysed in accordance with behaviour patterns in the space or distribution of associative attributes. The American scientist Ch. Osgood developed the latter methodical basis of the research, i. e. semantic differential analysis. The factor analysis of the living environment (or other contruct) verbal descriptions (data from semantic differentials) is the essence of the method. Verbal descriptions of the environment are an adjective pair of words opposite meanings, which are used to evaluate the concordance of the environmental view (construct) with suggested characteristics (concepts), which make factors as the aspects of the environmental quality evaluation. Theese researches are based on the premise that the environment is evaluated using a common set of the aspects with different weights considering the environment. The scientist performed semantic studies of connotative meanings (life – death, amenity – crudity, warmth – cold, and etc.). and identified three basic semantuc dimensions that people use for making judgements on the environmental quality, such as subjective (assessment of feelings), potency (capabilities), and activity (functions or usage). Subsequent research findings suggest that theese three basic dimensions do not generalize the meaning of environments. The territories of Klaipeda old town can be categorized according to the influence of their urban changes on the image of a city, or, according to the evaluation leverage of an area in forming the image of a city. The highest leverage of the image of a city belongs to areas that are most often visited by the residents of the city and tourists. Such areas can be excluded in the urban structure when analysing everyday and routine transfers of the residents and visitors of a city. Areas that contain the biggest density of such routs should be treated as areas with the highest leverage of the image of the city. Within the urban development, the basic purposes of squares remained, yet through time their content has become more and more versatile and fragmented. The most outstanding changes have been determined by the secularization of recreational function. A certain mutual link exists between the form of the square and the components of its content. |
