Environmental Aesthetics: Theory, Research, and ApplicationJack L. Nasar Cambridge University Press, 31.07.1992 - 529 Seiten How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified. |
Inhalt
Behavioral and perceptual aspects of the aesthetics of urban environments | 6 |
Symbolic aesthetics in architecture toward a research agenda | 11 |
Prospects and refuges revisited | 27 |
Perception and landscape conceptions and misconceptions | 45 |
Where cognition and affect meet a theoretical analysis of preference | 56 |
The landscape of social symbols | 64 |
Open space in cities in search of a new aesthetic | 74 |
Aesthetic perception in environmental design | 84 |
Visual preferences in urban street scenes a crosscultural comparison between Japan and the United States | 260 |
Perception and evaluation of residential street scenes | 275 |
Planning concerns relating to urban nature settings the role of size and other physical features | 290 |
The effect of sign complexity and coherence on the perceived quality of retail scenes | 300 |
E Natural and rural scenes | 323 |
Dimensions of meaning in the perception of natural settings and their relationship to aesthetic response | 327 |
A cognitive analysis of preference for fieldandforest environments | 343 |
The emotional quality of scenes and observation points a look at prospect and refuge | 357 |
Empirical studies | 101 |
A Methodological comments | 107 |
The assessment of landscape quality an integrative approach | 108 |
Affective appraisals of environments | 120 |
B Architectural interiors | 133 |
The influence of a beautiful versus an ugly room on ratings of photographs of human faces a replication of Maslow and Mintz | 134 |
The development of a usable lexicon of environmental descriptors | 144 |
Lightingdesign decisions as interventions in human visual space | 156 |
C Architectural exteriors | 173 |
A study of meaning and architecture | 175 |
Predicting user responses to buildings | 195 |
Dimensions in the perception of architecture identification and interpretation of dimensions of similarity | 212 |
Contextual compatibility in architecture an issue of personal taste? | 228 |
D Urban scenes | 257 |
Aesthetic preference for rural landscapes some resident and visitor differences | 364 |
Familiarity and preference a crosscultural analysis | 379 |
Applications | 393 |
Visual needs in urban environments and physical planning | 395 |
A survey of aesthetic controls in English speaking countries | 422 |
Scenicbeauty issues in public policy making | 434 |
Coping with aesthetics and community design in rural communities | 449 |
Toward theory generation in landscape aesthetics | 459 |
Aesthetic regulation and the courts | 476 |
References | 493 |
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Environmental Aesthetics: Theory, Research, and Application Jack L. Nasar Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1988 |
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