Spatial Concept Perspectives

We have gathered ~300 excerpts from published works about fundamental spatial concept terms. These have been cross-referenced with the concept lexicon appearing on the left. Those terms were drawn from the U.S.National Science Education Standards (NSES 1996) for topic areas B - Physical Science, C - Life Science, D - Earth and Space Science, as well as from the 1994 U.S. Geography Teaching Standards for grades 9-12. Those standards can be browsed here.

spatial concept terms

disciplinary perspectives on "texture"

roughness

(Roughness) is an essential feature of living things, and has deep structural causes (p 211). Roughness does not seek to superimpose an arbitrary order over a design, but instead lets the larger order be relaxed, modified according to the demands and constraints which happen locally in different parts of the design p 213-4).

Alexander (2004)

The Nature of Order, Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life

texture

[OED]: 4. In extended use: The constitution, structure, or substance of anything with regard to its constituents or formative elements.

Linguistics

OED Online (2nd Ed.)

Oxford English Dictionary, Online Edition