Woodland spaces and edges: their impact on perception of safety and preference

Jørgensen, Anna; Hitchmough, James; Calvert, Tig

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(02)00052-x

Cited by 260 publications

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“…The correlation test could be reapplied. If it no longer exists, the correlation may be the result of the types of questions rather than difficulties in distinguishing between the different concepts as suggested by Jorgensen et al (2002). However, an even larger sample size would be required to carry out the test making it unfeasible for the purposes of this research.…”

Section: Marginal Effectsmentioning

confidence: 95%

The Application of Visual Environmental Economics in the Study of Public Preference and Urban Greenspace

Laing

Davies

Miller³

et al. 2009

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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This is an author produced version of a paper published in Urban greenspace has consistently been argued to be of great importance to the wellbeing, health, and daily lives of residents and users. This paper reports results from a study which combined the visualisation of public greenspace with environmental economics, and which aimed to develop a method by which realistic computer models of sites could be used within preference studies. As part of a methodology which employed contingent rating to establish the values placed on specific greenspace sites, three-dimensional computer models were used to produce visualisations of particular environmental conditions. Of particular importance to the study was the influence of variables including lighting, season, time of day and weather on the perception of respondents. This study followed previous work that established a suitable approach to the modelling and testing of entirely moveable physical variables within the built environment. As such, the study has firmly established that computer-generated visualisations are appropriate for use within environmental economic surveys, and that there is potential for a holistic range of attributes to be included in such studies.

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Section: Marginal Effectsmentioning

confidence: 95%

The Application of Visual Environmental Economics in the Study of Public Preference and Urban Greenspace

Laing

Davies

Miller³

et al. 2009

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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“…Green areas therefore are significant for quality of life and have high social and economic values (Anderson and Cordell, 1988;De Hollander and Staatsen, 2003;Kirkpatrick et al, 2012). In terms of natural view, green areas have often been studied from the perspectives of visibility (Yang et al, 2009), aesthetics, recreation (Lange et al, 2008), safety and preference (Jorgensen et al, 2002) in urban life.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated effects of urban morphology on birdsong loudness and visibility of green areas

Hao

Kang

Krijnders³

2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Abstract:The aim of this study is to determine how to increase birdsong loudness and the visibility of green areas in low-density residential areas by controlling urban morphological parameters. The spatial sound level distributions of birdsong at 12 sites sampled from a GIS database of Assen, the Netherlands, were simulated by noise mapping techniques and calculated using a MATLAB program on spatial sound level matrices. The visibilities of green areas are analysed and calculated by Visibility Analysis Graph in Space Syntax. Correlation analyses were conducted between the obtained data on spatial sound level indices, the mean visibility and urban morphological parameters. The results show that birdsong loudness has significant positive linear relationships with urban morphological parameters, including Building Plan Area Fraction (R 2 =0.491), Green Area Perimeters (R 2

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“…For many people, green spaces in urban areas provide their primary contact with biodiversity and the "natural" environment (Jorgensen et al, 2002), may influence their physical and mental well-being (Ulrich et al, 1991;Jackson, 2003), and, in the case of public green space, can offer broader social benefits as meeting places that give a shared focus to diverse communities and neighbourhoods (Germann-Chiari and Seeland, 2004;Martin et al, 2004). In consequence, regulatory and advisory agencies have made various recommendations for the minimum provision of urban green space, usually expressed as the walking distance or time to access the resource (e.g.…”

Section: Recreationmentioning

confidence: 99%