New approach to urban design urged in the wake of new contributions from psychologists, anthropologists and others on the revision of our traditional concepts of space; two categories of space have to be distinguished, physical and mental; concepts of space differ culturally and examples are given of how this has influenced urban design; concepts further developed by subdividing mental space into three types; the symbolic,the biological and the mathematical; examples given of how they have been embodied in the layout of towns, building design and painting.

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