Perception of a City’s Extent

The thesis is about the perceived extent of a city in comparison to the administrative city limits. This thesis primarily based on an opinion poll with 500 respondents that was conducted in the Malmö region in May 2013 and sets out to map the perceived city extent of the city of Malmö. Furthermore, a comparison is made with the findings from an identical opinion poll made in the Stockholm region. The aim is to examine if there is a difference between the administrative city extent and the perceived city extent as well as factors that seem to influence the perception of city. The thesis concludes that there are observable gaps between perceived city extent and administrative city extent and that these gaps consist of both under- and overestimations of the perceived city