Based on a qualitative meta-analysis, synthesis and interpretation of seventy published studies spanning several decades, this book examines the evolution of spatial knowledge among young people, considering both conceptual tensions and the practical implications of its findings for urban planning and design.

Showing how society can and should be perceived as spatial, this book demonstrates what has changed in the perception of space within the social sciences and how useful – indeed indispensable – concepts of space and spatial concepts remain today.