Beyond the visible : prolegomenon to an aesthetics of designed landscapes

Visual guidelines for climate-responsive urban design

“…The difficulties and uncertainties around aesthetic values in landscape architecture can be called forth here. Etteger (2016) writes, "even though not everyone likes the same things, the other extreme situation -that each individual has a completely different taste -is certainly also not the case". Based on this statement, we argue that visual representations will hardly ever please a whole target group.…”

Convivial Greenstreets: A Concept for Climate-Responsive Urban Design

“…Certainly, an urban frame can be appreciated as beautiful, ugly, sophisticated, kitschy, tacky, humorous, sublime, or uncanny. However, whatever their aesthetic appeal, as in the aesthetic response triggered in people by a landscape [62], this appeal is not likely to result from an in-depth dive into philosophical considerations around the aesthetics of a landscape, but more from spontaneous ad hoc manifestations of personal intentions materialized by the means at hand. CG are probably the most straightforward manifestation of the idea that what makes spaces public is not their ownership status, physical design, or aesthetic appearance, but rather the experiences people are able to create and share within it [63].…”

Clever and cool : generating design guidelines for climate-responsive urban green infrastructure

“…Perception here describes how a person consciously senses and experiences the urban environment, being the world 'out-there' (Jacobs, 2006). Besides views, noises or smells, people experience and sense thermal conditions in the urban environment (Lenzholzer, 2010a, Van Etteger, 2016 when they walk or spend time outdoors at any time of the day, in any season. Depending on individual aspects, such as age or gender, and on the specific location within the urban environment, people perceive thermal environments differently.…”