Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Analysis of the Selective Permeability of Busan.
Our task in this article is to investigate selective permeability in the city of Busan in South Korea. Drawing on Gibson's tenet that perception organizes around "affordances" or action possibilities, the selective permeability model suggests that a single setting can be objectively supportive or ho...
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