We studied the characteristics of space and meaning in the cognition of the city-center shown by the inhabitants of a large city, in relation to their socio-physical positions in the urban environment. We found that the spatial attributes of the city-center cognition become more stereotyped when the “subjective marginality” and the “objective marginality” of the inhabitants increase.
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