“…Visual perception, which is used to determine the visual and aesthetic value of the landscape, has been used by many researchers in the evaluation of different spatial features. These studies are listed as follows: user perception of planting design and plant compositions studies (Acar & Ayhan Güneroğlu, 2009;Acar & Derya, 2010;Demirbaş et al, 2003;Erduran & Kabaş, 2010;Kösa, 2019;Müderrisoğlu & Eroğlu, 2006;Sakıcı et al, 2012;Tarakçı Eren et al, 2018); visual evaluation of different vegetation types (Sarı & Karaşah, 2015); visual perception of pedestrian roads (Aytaş & Uzun, 2015;A. Kaplan & Coşkun Hepcan, 2004;Rezazadeh, 2011;Tsuchiya, 2013); the effect of the visual attractiveness of urban parks on user perception (Altınçekiç & Erdönmez, 2001;Çakcı & Çelem, 2009;Karmanov & Hamel, 2009;Kurdoğlu & Üstün Topal, 2017;Mahdavinejad & Abedi, 2012;Surat, 2017;Yazıcı & Kiper, 2019); studies on the past and current situations of public spaces such as city squares (Acarlı & Kiper, 2018;Çınar & Çetindağ, 2009); evaluation of visual landscape quality of recreational areas (Özhancı & Yılmaz, 2011); quantifying user preferences with visual perception on different subjects such as landscape quality and visual assessment (Engin Dere, 2017;Hacıalioğlu et al, 2017).…”