Response to congruity or contrast for man‐made features in natural‐recreation settings

Wohlwill, Joachim F.; Harris, Glenn

doi:10.1080/01490408009512943

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“…Although these often detract from the aesthetic quality of a landscape, not all types of artificial features are equally unattractive. A high degree of contrast or incongruity between a structure's color, texture, size, or shape and its natural setting were found to decrease the preference for park scenes in the Northeast (Wohlwill & Harris, 1980). Similarly, incongruity and crowding of structures decreased the attractiveness of forested subdivisions in Colorado (Vining, Daniel, & Schroeder, 1984).…”

Section: Perception Of Urban Forest Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Advance in Environment, Behavior, and Design

Zube¹,

Moore²

1989

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Section: Perception Of Urban Forest Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Zube¹,

Moore²

1989

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“…The linear boundaries and the inference of a dam from the straight lines indicated two respondents' concerns about the geometric cleaving of the water at boundaries. "Man-made" features have been found to be incongruous in nature settings (Wohlwill and Harris 1980), though the photos here were in developed settings that differed in their level of intensive modification. Respondents might distinguish between different types of acceptable "human-made" interventions in the landscape, accepting rural land cover changes and management for agriculture, but not accepting extraction even in more modified settings.…”

Section: Nonselected Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…photos can be found in Figure 1. (Wohlwill and Harris 1980). The compromise alternative fared worst for this site (two of three dimensions), with rectangular lake geometry, rows of plantation forests (foreground), and larger estate residential homes.…”

Section: Alternative Rehabilitationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Cultural Acceptability of Alternative Pit and Quarry Rehabilitations

Corry¹,

Lafortezza²,

Brown³

2011

Ecological Restoration

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Pit and quarry sites from sand, gravel, and rock extraction must be rehabilitated by law in Ontario. Adjacent and nearby landscapes affect local residents' perceptions of the success of rehabilitation in terms of how the former extraction site "fits" the landscape. Along with ecological imperatives, the ways in which rehabilitation is designed to fit a social landscape warrants investigation. It would benefit local people, the aggregates industry, rehabilitation designers, and policy makers to have more information about how rehabilitation projects can embrace local ecological and social contexts by considering how people might perceive the acceptability and cultural value of a rehabilitation. We explored this question in southern Ontario using an online questionnaire to gather responses to a series of photographs, some of which were simulated, showing a range of landscape conditions that might occur around pits and quarries. Respondents were considerably concerned with forest loss, and to a lesser degree with habitats like wetlands and streams. Though housing perceived to be suburban was disliked, housing clusters in a rural area did not suffer the same result. People did not consistently choose a single focus as most desirable. Instead they responded to attributes within the context in which the rehabilitation occurred.

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“…Therefore, it is important for designers to distinguish carefully the colors of the landscape and the buildings. Although many studies have explored the relationships between color and landscape, most of them probe into the effect of facility‐environment color contrasts on visual landscape preferences, for example, or environmental impact, the influence of environment customary colors was seldom discussed.…”

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Exploring compatible facility colors and associated colors for outdoor recreational spaces

Cheng

Lee

Shen

2015

Color Research & Application

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Many studies have demonstrated that people associate customary colors to buildings and facilities, and these colors significantly influence people's evaluations of the environment. However, whether customary colors also exist in the environments where building facilities have been installed is rarely discussed. Using correspondence analysis, this study explored the colors associated with five different outdoor recreational spaces (theme parks, national parks, recreational farms, riverside parks, and historic heritage sites) and fitted facility colors. The study acquired a valid sample of 103 college students and demonstrated that people judge colors in recreational spaces according to past experience and their impressions of the spaces. Hue, value, and saturation are not independent factors for color consideration; a color with a specific value and saturation is particularly suitable for some spaces. In addition, the color associated with an environment and the compatible color for facilities are not exactly the same. The possible factors that influence different environment colors and future research directions were also discussed. V C 2015

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Response to congruity or contrast for man‐made features in natural‐recreation settings

Cited by 39 publications

References 10 publications

Advance in Environment, Behavior, and Design

Advance in Environment, Behavior, and Design

Cultural Acceptability of Alternative Pit and Quarry Rehabilitations

Exploring compatible facility colors and associated colors for outdoor recreational spaces

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