Water View Imagery: Perception and evaluation of urban waterscapes worldwide

Luo, Junjie; Zhao, Tianhong; Cao, Lei; Biljecki, Filip

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109615

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“…This study adopted this as a parameter to explore whether water bodies and their re ections can increase the information content of scenery. Previous studies revealed that the number of xations indicates how viewers tend to view objects (7,41). In this study, the PVA was used as a parameter to measure how often the viewer consciously or unconsciously focused on an object.…”

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Effects of Reflecting Water on Viewers’ Visual Perception and Subjective Evaluation: A Case Study in Classic Chinese Garden

Sun,

Bao

2024

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Water is considered one of the most important elements in landscape design. Studies claim that water expands perceived spatial dimension. In classic Chinese gardens, water is usually used to expand limited garden spaces. However, this information is mostly experience-based. Therefore, this exploratory study compared the differences in characteristics of the observer's visual and cognitive processing using a typical classic Chinese garden scenery picture with and without water through experiment (repeated measures design). A total of 64 participants were asked to randomly view two pictures respectively. The results showed that water reflection attracts more visual attention than pavement. Moreover, reflections can reduce the proportion of visual attention of a reflected substance and lower its visual attractiveness. The estimation of the actual area size showed that water was not effective for people’s spatial perception. However, participants felt a greater sense of spaciousness when viewing scenes that included water. These results suggest that reflecting on the water enhanced people’s appreciation of the scene.

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Effects of Reflecting Water on Viewers’ Visual Perception and Subjective Evaluation: A Case Study in Classic Chinese Garden

Sun,

Bao

2024

Preprint

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“…With respect to quantitative definitions, some progress was made since [59]. Several studies concentrate on one specific landscape element, e.g., walking path geometry [27] (having found that people tend to prefer curvy paths), oppressiveness due to building height [40], skyline impression [60], visual quality of urban water landscapes [61,62], and building exteriors [63]. Combined approaches include mostly landscape aesthetics indicators, e.g., [29], who developed beauty indexes and also distinguished landscape type; the morphologic scenic beauty estimation model of [64]; an aesthetic assessment approach [65]; and modelling of the aesthetics of urban-rural fringes [66].…”

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Do We Live Where It Is Pleasant? Correlates of Perceived Pleasantness with Socioeconomic Variables

Monteiro,

Carrilho,

Sousa

et al. 2023

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Living in urban areas is the wish of many people. However, with population growth in those areas, quality of life has become a concerning element for achieving sustainable cities. Because quality of life is influenced by the built environment, the state of the latter is a fundamental issue for public policies. This research expands on previous research on the perceived pleasantness of built environments by presenting a large-scale case study of the urban layout pleasantness in the central area of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a typical global south city, and correlating pleasantness scores with socioeconomic factors to understand whether people do in fact live where the urban layout is more pleasant and how pleasantness and socioeconomic factors relate and contribute to one’s choice of living location. A comparison with the city of Coimbra, Portugal, representative of the global north, was also carried out. The findings showed that pleasantness tended to correlate negatively with urban density and positively with income. Possible explanations for these results and their generality are advanced.

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“…The study of landscape aesthetics began in the late 1960s [ 25 , 26 , 27 ]. The research methods are divided into subjective paradigm (based on perception and public preference) and objective paradigm (based on landscape metrics to evaluate the objective visual value quality of landscape) [ 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ]. With the development of landscape aesthetics research, nowadays, landscape aesthetics evaluation mainly relies on spatial, psychological, and physiological perspectives.…”

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Landscape Aesthetic Value of Waterfront Green Space Based on Space–Psychology–Behavior Dimension: A Case Study along Qiantang River (Hangzhou Section)

Xiao-jia

Chen²,

Huang

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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As an important part of urban green infrastructure, the landscape effect of the urban waterfront green space varies, and sometimes, the green space with an excellent landscape aesthetic value fails to serve the needs of most citizens. This seriously affects the construction of a green ecological civilization and the implementation of the concept of “common prosperity” in China. Based on multi-source data, this study took the Qiantang River Basin as an example, selected 12 representative waterfront green spaces along the river as the research objects, and used qualitative and quantitative analysis methods to determine the landscape aesthetic value of the research area from the different dimensions of space, psychology, and physiology. We examined the relationship between each dimension so as to objectively and comprehensively reflect the landscape value characteristics of the waterfront green space in the study area and provide a reasonable theoretical framework and practical development path for future urban waterfront green space landscape design. We obtained the following results: (1) The results of the spatial dimension research indicated that the spatial value index of the waterfront green space in the study area was three-dimensional space > vertical space > horizontal space, and the overall spatial value was low; Qianjiang Ecological Park obtained the highest value (0.5473), and Urban Balcony Park obtained the lowest value (0.4619). (2) The results of the psychological dimension indicated that people’s perceptions of the waterfront green space in the study area were relatively weak, mainly focusing on visual perception, but the waterfront green space with a relative emotional value greater than one accounted for 75%, and the overall recognition of the landscape was high. (3) The results of the behavioral dimension showed that the overall heat of the waterfront green space in the study area was insufficient (1.3719–7.1583), which was mainly concentrated in low-heat levels, and the population density was unevenly distributed (0.0014–0.0663), which was mainly concentrated in the medium-density level. The main purpose of users was to visit, and they stayed an average of 1.5 h. (4) The results of the coupling coordination analysis of the spatial–psychological–behavioral dimensions showed that the landscape value of the waterfront green space in the study area presented a form of ‘high coupling degree and low coordination degree’.

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Water View Imagery: Perception and evaluation of urban waterscapes worldwide

Cited by 25 publications

References 77 publications

Effects of Reflecting Water on Viewers’ Visual Perception and Subjective Evaluation: A Case Study in Classic Chinese Garden

Effects of Reflecting Water on Viewers’ Visual Perception and Subjective Evaluation: A Case Study in Classic Chinese Garden

Do We Live Where It Is Pleasant? Correlates of Perceived Pleasantness with Socioeconomic Variables

Landscape Aesthetic Value of Waterfront Green Space Based on Space–Psychology–Behavior Dimension: A Case Study along Qiantang River (Hangzhou Section)

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