Aesthetics of streetscapes: influence of fundamental properties on aesthetic judgments of urban space
| Autor: | Jörg Schnier, Ralf Weber, Thomas Jacobsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Esthetics Urban Population Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Environment Models Psychological Beauty Judgment Residence Characteristics Photography Quality (philosophy) Humans Cities City Planning Analysis of Variance Principal Component Analysis Middle Aged Sensory Systems Q-Sort Aesthetics Space Perception Quality of Life Visual Perception Female Psychology Scale (map) Urban space |
| Zdroj: | Perceptual and motor skills. 106(1) |
| ISSN: | 0031-5125 |
| Popis: | This experiment was designed to investigate the relationship between the fundamental visual, spatial properties of existing complex streetscapes and aesthetic judgments. Participants performed aesthetic judgments over 35 photographs of typical spatial situations taken along the Meißner Straße in Radebeul, Germany. In a modified Q-Sort procedure, the participants assigned the pictures to five categories, including 1 (beautiful) and 5 (not beautiful). Vegetation, Stylistic Uniformity, Homogeneity of Scale, and Symmetry were identified as primary components of aesthetic judgment by using principal component analysis. Stimuli, photographically edited according to these factors, were then tested using the same Q-Sort procedure, which confirmed these determinants. These results are intended to help the development of the theoretical understanding of the link between the influence of selected spatial properties and the aesthetic judgment of the visual quality of urban spaces. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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