1 The seminal work on wayfinding is The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch, MIT Press, 1960.

2 “Cognitive Maps and Spatial Behavior” by Roger M. Downs and David Stea, in Image and Environment, Aldine Publishing Company, 1973, p. 8–26.

3 See, for example, “Wayfinding by Newcomers in a Complex Building” by Darrell L. Butler, April L. Acquino, Alicia A. Hissong, and Pamela A. Scott, Human Factors, 1993, vol. 35(1), p. 159–173.

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