“The ‘hidden landscape’ of the home became a legitimate domain of geographical inquiry, as did the worlds of child care and child’s play” (Merrifield, 1995, 57).
“The two maps show buildings, streets, vacant land and water but they also show living trees and shrubs versus dead trees and shrubs, rubbish and trash versus defined play areas and gym equipment and tricycles- cycles and scooters versus trucks, automobiles and fences. The two maps effectively depict the differences in the environments of the children who live in the confines of these two neighborhoods” (Wood, 1992 cited in Casey & Pederson).
Source: Lisa Casey & Tom Pederson Urbanizing GIS: Philadelphia's Strategy to Bring GIS to Neighborhood Planning http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc95/to150/p107.html
“The two maps show buildings, streets, vacant land and water but they also show living trees and shrubs versus dead trees and shrubs, rubbish and trash versus defined play areas and gym equipment and tricycles- cycles and scooters versus trucks, automobiles and fences. The two maps effectively depict the differences in the environments of the children who live in the confines of these two neighborhoods” (Wood, 1992 cited in Casey & Pederson).
Source: Lisa Casey & Tom Pederson Urbanizing GIS: Philadelphia's Strategy to Bring GIS to Neighborhood Planning http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc95/to150/p107.html