Green space context and vegetation complexity shape people’s preferences for urban public parks and residential gardens

Harris, V.; Kendal, Dave; Hahs, Amy K.; Threlfall, Caragh G.

doi:10.1080/01426397.2017.1302571

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“…The finding that most of the polled citizens support natural meadows and would like them to increase, supports the results of previous studies on urban biodiversity and nature protection (e.g., [28,30,36]). Moreover, additionally provided information increased the acceptance for urban natural meadows.…”

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“…The multifunctional role of urban green [36], i.e., its value for both intrinsic nature and human use, must be an issue in urban nature planning and makes it necessary to consider both natural scientific environmental and socio-cultural studies. Some studies have already combined both these ways of evaluating nature [28]. Perpetuating this approach, we set a green space management that was already optimized according to the recommendation of our insect biodiversity studies [17][18][19][20][21] in direct connection with peoples' attitudes towards urban nature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Even if urban natural green spaces seem to have a high aesthetic value in residents' opinions (e.g., [26][27][28]), there might be potential negative aspects when trying to protect biodiversity in urban areas. As little is known about the specific case of public acceptance of unspoilt natural meadows in urban areas (e.g., [29,30]), sociological arguments should also be carefully considered in biodiversity protection [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Urban Nature: Perception and Acceptance of Alternative Green Space Management and the Change of Awareness after Provision of Environmental Information. A Chance for Biodiversity Protection

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Measurable ecological data, e.g., species diversity, provide inadequate information for achieving the comprehensive protection of biodiversity, because human acceptance attitudes can be important factors in undermining nature protection schemes. We have analysed an ecologically driven urban management system presented to urban habitants. A photograph-based survey answered by 424 participants was used to evaluate their impressions of natural meadows. The positive effect of provided information tables was demonstrated by pre-and post-test designs. Attitudes towards urban nature protection showed a statistical preference for green-area management systems optimising insect protection compared with more regularly mowed meadows and lawns. Thus, the perceptions of people should be considered in processes of biodiversity protection. Our results correlate with personal attitude and education, support the aims of extensive green-space management and should encourage urban planners to integrate biodiversity protection zones into urban planning.

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“…Therefore, local assessments of residents' preferences about urban green spaces should be encouraged. In fact, a 'one size fits all' approach to green space planning may never meet the general public's desires [63,64].…”

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Preferences for Urban Green Space Characteristics: A Comparative Study in Three Portuguese Cities

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Many studies have argued that a better understanding of people's preferences about public urban green spaces may inform urban planners to effectively provide and manage urban green spaces to meet users' needs. The aim of this study is to examine urban residents preferred public green space characteristics and investigate whether similarities and differences can be highlighted in three different Portuguese cities. Through a web-based questionnaire based on the best-worst scaling (BWS) method, residents of Lisbon, Porto and Évora (n = 750) were asked to select the most and least important public green space characteristic among thirteen attributes. The results suggest a consensus about some green space characteristics across cities but also the existence of some local variations in city residents' preferences. Overall, this study can support public authorities and urban planners as they strive to effectively design and manage urban green spaces to meet users' needs.

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“…Thus, vegetation color is an important factor to evaluate and measure to index landscape beauty [3]. Understanding human preference for the color can lead to more attractive UGS through the impact of color on visual beauty.Many studies have shown that plant color is an important factor affecting people's evaluation [6,[22][23][24], but these studies mainly focus on the color change of individual tree parts, such as the leaf [25,26] and flower [27] of a tree. Different colors give people different perceptions that trigger psychological responses that may also result in physiological reactions.…”

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Effects of Design Proportion and Distribution of Color in Urban and Suburban Green Space Planning to Visual Aesthetics Quality

Hauer

2020

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Landscape color provides visual attractiveness and is an important landscape architecture construct in design and with aesthetics. Along roadways, plant color in a midground position provides a potential location readily seen by people. However, few studies have quantitatively explored the impact of a green (original) only compared to additions of color on the visual aesthetic quality (VAQ) in this spatial location. In this study, visual images were constructed to contrast four red color proportions (25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of midground) and four color spatial distributions (Red-Single, Red-Group, Green-Single and Green-Group) mixed with three landscapes texture classes (rigid = narrowleaf coniferous, soft = broadleaved, and mixed = both) in the background. As red color proportion increased, VAQ also increased. In the original all green landscape, the background setting had a significant impact on VAQ, but the texture plant design of the foreground had no significant impact on the landscape VAQ. Broadleaved (M VAQ = 63.2) and coniferous landscapes (M VAQ = 55.9) were rated as more attractive than a mixed landscape (M VAQ = 27.9). From the perspective of design color, increasing the proportions of color can improve the VAQ of the landscape. This study indicates that aesthetic quality becomes highest when the color proportion of the middle ground layer was greatest at C 100 (M VAQ = 79.7). Comparing the four spatial color distributions, the single distributed green landscape (M VAQ = 60.9) and the group distributed landscape when started with red (M VAQ = 54.0) had the higher quality than the others. Findings from this study can be used to support public authorities and urban planners to effectively design and manage urban spaces to meet dwellers' needs.Visual aesthetic quality (VAQ) is an index to potentially rate USG [9][10][11] and use by decision makers to design and install landscapes that link people and nature [12,13] and best express people's preferences for landscapes. Most VAQ research comes from landscape studies on agriculture [14], architecture [15], and rural forestry applications [16]. Thus, testing the application of VAQ models into UGS provides another land use to explore the application in built environments.Vegetation imparts aesthetics through color, texture, and form [17]. Other vegetation features, such as the tree stand age and horizontal structure, also show some significant influence on quality [18]. Color is an important element of visual perception and evaluation [19,20] and as much as 80% of people's visual perception comes from color [21]. Thus, vegetation color is an important factor to evaluate and measure to index landscape beauty [3]. Understanding human preference for the color can lead to more attractive UGS through the impact of color on visual beauty.Many studies have shown that plant color is an important factor affecting people's evaluation [6,[22][23][24], but these studies mainly focus on the color change of individual tree parts, such as the leaf [25,26] and flower [27] of a...

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Green space context and vegetation complexity shape people’s preferences for urban public parks and residential gardens

Cited by 107 publications

References 79 publications

Urban Nature: Perception and Acceptance of Alternative Green Space Management and the Change of Awareness after Provision of Environmental Information. A Chance for Biodiversity Protection

Urban Nature: Perception and Acceptance of Alternative Green Space Management and the Change of Awareness after Provision of Environmental Information. A Chance for Biodiversity Protection

Preferences for Urban Green Space Characteristics: A Comparative Study in Three Portuguese Cities

Effects of Design Proportion and Distribution of Color in Urban and Suburban Green Space Planning to Visual Aesthetics Quality

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