Keywords
urbanism
autoethnography
Puerto Rico
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Abstract
The historical context underlying geography shows how its teaching was limited, for several centuries, to the description and memorization of places on the earth's surface. The reductionist gaze prevented strengthening spatial reasoning skills in matters related to the environment, regional analysis, and technological applications. The purpose of this article is to incorporate the fundamentals of spatial reasoning to discuss a pedestrian route from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus to Old San Juan. An autoethnography was carried out to respond to the purpose of this article. The investigation of Gersmehl and Gersmehl (2007) were used as main reference for the pedestrian route made. The significant results support that spatial reasoning is cemented in the brain from an early age through the skills of building auras and analogies, comparing, ranking, regionalizing, transitioning, associating, and identifying spatial patterns.
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