ÅRHUS

Abstract

From the point of view of inhabitants of

Skåde Bakker and Fedet, two well-off

neighbourhoods in the Danish city of

Aarhus, this article discusses social and

visual perceptions of space. The spatial

understanding of the city of Aarhus is

twofold: it is understood simultaneously

as an entity (a coherent city with centre

and periphery) and as an archipelago of

different spatial organisations in a big

urbanised sea. Among the multitude of

spaces and spatial understanding the

article deals with different categories such

as the central district, the neighbourhoods

of Skåde Bakker and Fedet, transit space

and virtual space. The topic, space perceptions,

is understood very concretely, as

social and visual organisations of the

relationship between form and space, and

on its way through the town of the well

off city dwellers the article describes gardens

and landscapes as well as roads and

shopping areas of Aarhus.