Sketching culture, sketching nature: uncovering anchors of everyday nature for urban youth
There has, historically, been considerable uncertainty over the meaning of ‘urban nature’ and, therefore, the extent to which culture and nature are bound in the urban setting. We explore, in this paper, the spatiality of everyday nature as experienced by youth in an urban
setting. To do so, we draw on the results of a participatory mapping activity that was designed to elicit information about where youth felt most connected to nature while in the city. Using sketch-map survey instruments, we collected hand-drawn responses from forty-three high school students
in the downtown core of Tacoma, Washington. Data were digitized and analyzed in a GIS, and results were revealing of the contingency of the ‘nature’ concept in urban space as well as the centrality of ‘loose’ space to urban experiences that are evocative of being in
nature.
Keywords: GIS; SIG; cartografía bosquejo; cartographie en esquisse; cultura; culture; jeunesse; jóvenes; naturaleza; nature; participativa; participative; participatory; sistema de información geográfica; urbain; urban; urbano; youth
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce StreetTacoma,WA,98402, USA 2: University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce StreetTacoma,WA,98402, USA
Publication date: 01 December 2012
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