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Ding, Xiaofei, and 丁笑非. "Reviving the sense of place--Changli Road streetscape design: exploration of temporal-spatiallandscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47542184.
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According to incomplete statistics, human desertification has
become a huge risk of social problems and also a new focus of
today’s social life. The government and residential gave efforts to
find a way to solve that to avoid exacerbating the problem.
According to the fact, back to earth, back to humanity, these always
meet the demands of people. On this land, we have lost lot
memories, and a lot about to be lost. Facing that, we could just
chase it, make up, observe, and discover, till we pick up some pieces
from the broken memories. Combine them on a piece of weathered
gouache on paper, and then use the green to add vital principle,
orange to outline the curves of memories, use balanced color to
form the public space to make up the dimly face, create a new
“Long Tang”.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Architecture<br>Master<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Guo, Chen. "The role of outdoor advertising on streetscapes in the metropolitan commercial areas of Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39634541.
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Xue, Bing, and 薛冰. "Symbiotic street: stray cattle andcittizens [i. e. citizens] on streets of Ahmedabad." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B5070803X.
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Guo, Chen, and 郭琛. "The role of outdoor advertising on streetscapes in the metropolitan commercial areas of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39634541.
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Boyko, Christopher T. "The influence of architectural detailing, massing, and design interest on the evaluation of heritage and historic urban streetscapes." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53092.pdf.
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Kwan, Hoi-ling, and 關凱齡. "Tattooing the city: "infiltration of arts platforms in urban dense space"." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47542767.
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There are huge demands of limited lands in Hong Kong. It is an increasing trend for Hong
Kong Government to develop open space for the use of recreation activities as they found out
that it is very important to the individual as well as the community. Other than recreation use,
those open spaces can also served to allow air ventilation, penetration of sunlight and also act
as a place for amenity and visual relief in Hong Kong. Although, these functions are very
important in the high rise building environment, high density city like Hong Kong, there are
many small public open spaces in urban area which are not in a good quality. They cannot
function well in responsive to the context of the area, enhancing the quality of the
neighborhoods and suited for the public need in the community which they turns out become
not as popular as they are expected. The pocket open space in urban area is relatively small,
surrounded by commercial buildings or residential buildings. They usually have a simple
setting with planters and street furniture. Different activities involvement by different users in
these small open spaces create a small community in the urban area and supposingly can
enhance the interaction within people in the area.
Considering that there are complaints from the Artists that there are not enough outdoor arts
space in Hong Kong and public arts is the trend of some of the cities in other countries to
enhancing the identity and culture of the urban areas, such as the King Williams ArtWalk in
Otario in Canada. However, It is not popular in the urban dense space in Hong Kong. It is
good to exploring a possible new way to sustain the unique culture by applying public arts
platform in the urban area. The site is located around the Aberdeen Street in Central. It is an
old district with new culture style but lack of solid identity and energy throughout the space.
Although there are different organic developments, the streetscape is without strong
characters. The following pilot project is aim to use art platform as a tools to revealing the
missing link in urban context and also adding a possible new function to the open space in
urban dense area as a “outdoor showroom” of arts in the city in order to vibrate the city and
raise the awareness of public arts to the publics.<br>published_or_final_version<br>Architecture<br>Master<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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DeOrsey, Danielle S. "Six Wichita biking experiences: studying lived bicycling experiences to inform urban streetscape improvements for downtown Wichita." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19772.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page<br>Human happiness is often overlooked in urban revitalization. Many studies have proven the benefits of regular exercise for overall health and happiness. Active transportation adopted as a major form of transportation has the potential to provide similar benefits.
Wichita, Kansas, like many other mid-sized, American cities, prioritizes the car over the pedestrian. Currently, the plans for Douglas Avenue, the major thoroughfare, includes only minimal bicycle infrastructure, shared lane symbols (City of Wichita 2013). Lack of focus on the pedestrian and bicyclist only reinforces the auto-dominated downtown. Douglas Avenue is a missed opportunity and needs a re-envisioned strategy based upon current needs.
I hypothesized that better understanding the lived biking experience of Downtown Wichita would help me to develop design recommendations that address current streetscape issues as they occur in daily life. This exploratory study documents the experiences of a small group of people who bicycle in or through downtown Wichita on a regular basis.
First, participants recorded their experience visually and verbally by using GoPro cameras during a typical bike ride. Next, each participant reviewed their video with me, clarifying their comments and the overall experience. Dominant themes included: urban environment, bicycling infrastructure, road/traffic, safety and motorist behavior. The analysis of the bike rides and follow-up reflections were mapped over each participant’s route to reveal positive, negative, and neutral experiences categorized by theme. Final design strategies for selected areas (determined through analysis of experiences) were then produced based upon feedback and streetscape best practices.
Bicyclists of Wichita are faced with many stressful situations during their daily routes. I have realized that downtown Wichita has more than a design problem to fix—an entire bicycle culture must be developed. I learned that while each participant was unique, they wanted the same things: safety, a pleasurable ride, and to be respected by motorists.
Not all bicyclists’ needs can be answered through design; however, this proposal can help to create a safer and more pleasurable bicycling experience in downtown. An improved bicycle network provides humans with increased health, freedom to move, encourages and strengthens social connections, and provides a resilient form of transportation.
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Mortezaei, Seyed-Reza. "Culture rich design : a 'cultural-semiotic' framework in product design applied to urban streetscape elements." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486665.
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The aim of this study was to extend the application of culture into product design with particular attention to urban stre.etscape elements (known as street furniture). Poor understanding of culture and the lack of opportunity to use culture ina practical manner within the student group were explored as the problem areas. The initial motivation for the study stemmed from a desire to encourage the integration of the non-technological aspects of the design products, in which culture was categorised. This was believed to mainly achieve by developing a Cultural-Semiotic framework, which enables and encourages design students (novice designers) to approach culture in their projects. Therefore, a hypothesis was formulated to examine the extent of the .framework: A culturally orientated framework can be developed to determine important/significant variables to produce predictable culturally relevant changes in product design in general and urban streetscape elements in partl.cuIar. '' Culture could have strong interactions with product design in several ways, due to the symbolic qualities that a design product provides. Therefore, this enables products to be studied culturally, e.g. within a designer's mind (subjective aspects of culture) or outside his/her mind (objective aspects). To develop the framework, three fieldworks as a triangulation methodology were initially undertaken. Through Fieldwork 1 the author acquired a general idea about the current cultural understanding of novice designers. Fieldwork 2, examined the cultural extent of the design courses, and the understanding of culture amongst a wider and versatile audience. Meanwhile, Fieldwork 3 looked at how novice designers could convert cultural knowledge into practice. This established the problem areas and indicated the area of focus, which was representation. Representation is the process that gives product-signs their particular meaning. Then, a number of associated models were studied and the relevant ones were used as the basis. By implementing Schwartz Value Inventory, Four semantic functions of signs and the Saussrean model of sign, the Cultural-Semiotic framework was developed. The framework could perform on the degree of cultural meaning one might want to put into a design product. The framework was examined and evaluated through a workshop and a sample project session, involVing a selected group of novice designers. The Circuit of Culture model was used as an evaluation model alongside the SOLO Taxonomy, a model that describes the levels of increasing compleXity in a student's understanding of subjects. The emphasis was on the representational qualities of products. The result confirmed the role of the framework in enhancing the cultural understanding of novice designers. It specified: • The degree of cultural insight of a selected group; • The level of objectiVity in a totally subjective issue; • A deeper understanding of culture compared to the preliminary participants; • A certain degree of confirmation of the proposed hypothesis.
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Rosato, Dagmar. "Aqua.Street.Scapes: Interpreting Natural Hydrologic Processes while Enhancing the Urban Streetscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78268.
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This project proposes a new urban aquifer strategy that utilizes stormwater to create a cascading plaza and an improved 'great street' in Washington DC.
A system of urban aquifers is developed beneath the surface of the street, perched atop the compacted, impermeable soils below. This set of aquifers prevents stormwater from entering the existing combined sewer and allows trees to draw water from this new groundwater source and develop expansive root systems.
On the surface, stormwater flows through interconnected planters where it irrigates and is filtered by vegetation before infiltrating to recharge the aquifer. At Cascade Plaza, sloping topography intersects the aquifer, and the new groundwater seeps out of the plaza steps, turning them into a miniature cascade, by gravity and water pressure alone. It collects in a web of runnels, pools at the lowest point, and overflows in high water, mysteriously disappearing below ground again to fill an underground reservoir.
In this unique ecological system, water flows both above and below ground to mitigate excess stormwater and make the street and plaza more beautiful.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Sanders, Paul S. "Consonance in urban form: The architectural dimension of urban morphology." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91312/1/Paul_Sanders_Thesis.pdf.
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Consonance in urban form is contingent on the continuity of the fine grain architectural features that are imbued in the commodity of the evolved historic urban fabric. A city's past can be viewed therefore as a repository of urban form characteristics from which concise architectural responses can result in a congruent urban landscape. This thesis proposes new methods to evaluate the interplay of architectural elements that can be traced throughout the lifespan of the particular evolving urban areas under scrutiny, and postulates a theory of how the mapping of historical urban form can correlate with deriving parameters for new buildings.
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Harvey, Chester Wollaeger. "Measuring Streetscape Design for Livability Using Spatial Data and Methods." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2014. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/268.
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City streets are the most widely distributed and heavily trafficked urban public spaces. As cities strive to improve livability in the built environment, it is important for planners and designers to have a concise understanding of what contributes to quality streetscapes. The proportions and scale of buildings and trees, which define the three-dimensional extents of streetscapes, provide enduring, foundational skeletons. This thesis investigates how characteristics of such streetscape skeletons can be quantified and tested for appeal among human users.
The first of two journal-style papers identifies a concise set of skeleton variables that urban design theorists have described as influential to streetscape appeal. It offers an automated GIS-based method for identifying and cataloging these skeleton variables, which are practical to measure using widely available spatial data. Such an approach allows measurement of tens of thousands of street segments precisely and efficiently, a dramatically larger sample than can be feasibly collected using the existing auditing techniques of planners and researchers. Further, this paper examines clustering patterns among skeleton variables for street segments throughout Boston, New York, and Baltimore, identifying four streetscape skeleton types that describe a ranking of enclosure from surrounding buildings--upright, compact, porous, and open. The types are identifiable in all three cities, demonstrating regional consistency in streetscape design. Moreover, the types are poorly associated with roadway functional classifications--arterial, collector, and local--indicating that streetscapes are a distinct component of street design and must receive separate planning and design attention.
The second paper assesses relationships between skeleton variables and crowdsourced judgments of streetscape visual appeal throughout New York City. Regression modeling indicates that streetscapes with greater tree canopy coverage, lined by a greater number of buildings, and with more upright cross-sections, are more visually appealing. Building and tree canopy geometry accounts for more than 40% of variability in perceived safety, which is used as an indicator of appeal. While unmeasured design details undoubtedly influence overall streetscape appeal, basic skeletal geometry may contribute important baseline conditions for appealing streetscapes that are enduring and can meet a broad variety of needs.
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Ambekar, Latika Gangadhar. "Revisiting History - Heritage walk Proposal in Old City Pune, India." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79500.
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Over the centuries, cities have gained limelight and have significantly grown powerful with an increased level of importance. The rapid growth and urbanization posing a fatally critical threat to the future as the population is growing with each day. The development from the rural to urban life and the journey to an urban civilization has left the city in tatters. It has had adverse impacts on both social and environmental frontiers. Such rapid growth has led to the uncontrolled growth of population in countries that are in the process of development, and this growth is interpreted by means of concrete structuring with no apparent thought given to fundamentals such as feasibility, aesthetics, health, safety, road network or transportation. This leaves a very small window for even accommodating places for recreation in unplanned cities. Such spaces use shared spaces for recreation. Spaces like markets or public squares or streets.
The cultural heritage of India lies solely in its old cities, towns and ancient settlements. Due to globalization and groundbreaking pace of urbanization in the recent times, the historic fabric has been radically altered. As cities have evolved through aspirations and ideas only, with no functional thought whatsoever, it is vital for a developing country like India to recognize that without regard for its heritage it cannot build a future, or that a development without its heritage would be only unsustainable.<br>Master of Science
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Sickmann, Jared. "Portable landscapes: flexibility and customization associated with temporary landscapes." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32675.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Howard D. Hahn<br>Cities and towns across the world are in a dynamic state of change, and therefore, becoming responsive to new and innovative approaches to creating and restoring public spaces. These new approaches address the need for flexible, multifunctional spaces in order to adapt to and accommodate the changing demands and unexpected circumstances that occur within the city (Wall 1999, Temel 2006, Gehl 2011). Temporary landscapes, or site specific, time-limited designs of open space, have become an emerging approach to improving public spaces. These small scale projects provide unique experiences and offer a laboratory for experimentation where new, innovative ideas can be tested (Lydon 2012, Sargin and Savas 2012, Temel 2006).
The idea of flexibility and the need for multifunctional spaces are explored through the following report by investigating how an innovative approach involving temporary landscapes can enhance streetscape quality and offer a variety of public activities. First, I developed a deeper understanding of temporary landscapes in order to identify the transition in approach to urban design from focusing on permanence to temporary, and express the importance of temporality in urban design. A design matrix exploring programmatic options and customizable design features was established through an extensive literature review and case study analysis.
Through the application process, I explored the regulatory process involved in implementing a temporary landscape intended for the Aggieville Business District in Manhattan, Kansas. This procedure involved a review of the city's ordinances and liability concerns, designing a portable landscape, and constructing a prototype to be deployed off-street until approval is gained. The results from this project provide field evidence to support recommendations for future design iterations for portable landscapes that increase pedestrian comfort and support an expanded range of activities for public spaces. Prototypes of different design iterations and replications can also serve as future projects for the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kansas State University. Ultimately, this project will begin a critical discussion of the future role of temporary landscapes in cities that are in a dynamic state of change.
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Keith, Ryan H. "How Form and Function Create Community in the Middle Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32794.
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The middle landscape, more commonly referred to as Suburbia, has become spatially discontinuous, lacking the cohesive union, open spaces and city centers that once defined community. Presently, the middle landscapeâ s community spaces do not offer the opportunity for familiar and chance encounters or ritual activity. Large-scale housing development in Northern Virginia and in the mid-Atlantic region is continually segregating and ultimately destroying community and all links to the areaâ s history.
Located in Southern Fairfax County, the newly abandoned Lorton Central and Maximum Security Prison Facility provides an opportunity to serve as a catalyst for community in this area. This thesis investigates the historic precedence for creating successful community centers. The authorâ s personal investigation is focused upon using form and function to accomplish this vision. By adaptively reusing the existing architecture alongside new construction, the intent is to create a dense urban town center at the abandoned historic site.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Wildhaber, Eric. "Green trail systems and tourism: improving the quality of life in Kansas City through the addition of green systems, connected districts and tourism opportunities." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13746.
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Master of Landscape Architecture<br>Department of Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning<br>Jason Brody<br>The Mid America Regional Council, (MARC) is the official metropolitan planning organization for the Greater Kansas City region. MARC received a 4.25 million dollar grant from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2010 to advance the region’s vision of sustainability through vibrant, green, and connected centers and corridors. From which the CSP (Creating Sustainable Places) initiative was established.
Responding to this initiative, eight grant funded Kansas State University students worked in a Rock Island Corridor group. This group showed and described ways of achieving MARC’s and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s goals through the development of Master’s Reports. Reports include design ideas and proposals which MARC and city planning departments might not have developed otherwise. Student collaboration between public and city planning departments informed the development of student ideas.
Green trail systems and tourism specifically addresses how the quality of life in the Kansas City Metro Area could be enhanced with the implementation of a cultural trail network. This network would provide access to the Rock Island Corridor, create greenspaces, and establish mixed-use housing districts for potential home and business owners.
The Greater Kansas City region population is increasing. Trails, parks, and mixed-use buildings for residents in KC could improve the quality of life for future residents. Adding greenspaces, pedestrian mobility, and entertainment districts in which to find region specific activities could help attract people to redeveloping areas. Green trail systems and tourism’s project area is located between the Sprint Center and the Truman Sports Complex.
To resolve problems and dilemmas within this region of Kansas City, a routing plan of a cultural trail network is outlined. This cultural trail features new trail heads, cultural centers, and proposed zoning overlays for park developments and mixed-use housing districts. The trail network created connects the Sprint Center and Truman Sports Complex in Kansas City, Missouri as a tourism link. Tourism destinations and historic sites add to the economic success of KC. Sites are connected to in the routing plan for the cultural trail. This proposal shows one approach for creating sustainable centers in KC.
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Torabi, Elnaz. "Improving Urban Facades As An Intervention Into The Built Environment The Case Of Facade Improvement Application Along The Protocol Highway Of Ankara, A Route From Aydinlikevler District To Esenboga Airport." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610958/index.pdf.
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When human constructs the physical surrounding, a psychological environment of meanings is being created, accompanying the world of shapes and masses. Interventions into built environment affect the meanings extracted from the composition of the physical setting and the response of people to design strategies reveals the importance of them.
The entrance spine of a city is important in creating an image of the city in the minds of the observers, and the protocol highway of Ankara introduces the city to other countries&<br>#8217<br>leaders and visitors. So any intervention into this highway will affect the symbolic image formed. As such, attaching claddings onto visible faç<br>ades of buildings in terms of beautification changes the appearance of the streetscape, and Municipality&<br>#8217<br>s approach to faç<br>ade improvement does not heed the prestige of this corridor<br>being an application rather than a well-advised project.
This thesis aims to study the quality of the streetscape under the principles of design in terms of objective and subjective dimensions with respect to the physical characteristics of the setting and people&<br>#8217<br>s interpretations from it, and the objective of
this study is to question the success of this intervention with regard to solutions to improve the quality of the streetscape.
To this end evaluative analyses are studied in the second chapter and the third chapter introduces a matrix of design principles. According to these evaluations, most design concerns are being underestimated, resulting in the monotony of the streetscape but the streetscape appears to be visually more ordered compared to the past.
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Månsson, Martin. "Patterns and predictability of visual attention in different street types : An eye tracking study exploring the predictability of the distribution of human visual attention based on the spatial arrangements of buildings in a two-dimensional plan." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14564.
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Streets are the most resilient elements in a city. While buildings are replaced and property borders redrawn, the streets remain. The primary means of planning new streets and the built environment surrounding it is by the creation of a two-dimensional plan - in a Swedish context called a detailed development plan. The two-dimensional plan is sometimes criticized for its inability to take the three-dimensional world into account and thus its inability to predict the actual outcome of the plan. To address this critique and provide additional understanding for this planning device, this paper empirically explores if the distribution of visual attention can be predicted from a two-dimensional plan. Visual attention is explored due to sight being the most prominent means used by humans to gather information in the urban environment. Fifteen subjects performed a simple, computerized eye-tracking experiment, whereby their visual attention was measured as they looked at 40 images on a monitor. The 40 images depicts four different street types: blocked, open, curved and angled, each of which was represented with a simple figure image, as per interpretation from a two-dimensional plan, as well as a photograph of the same environment, representing the actual outcome of the plan. The results show that the simple figure images have effective predictive capabilities, as the distribution of visual attention exhibited a similar pattern in both the figure image and the photograph. The results also show that different patterns of visual attention are evoked by each of the four different street types. In sum, the results indicate that two-dimensional plans are able to predict the future three-dimensional outcome of a given plan in terms of visual attention. These indications are valuable for planners, architects, engineers and decision-makers when planning for new urban environments. The results are also valuable for understanding human perception of streets in a wider context.
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Levi, Selen. "Streetscapes in Motion: Urban Remediation of Public Space and Road Infrastructure." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/15161.
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When undertaking the renovation of large-scale road infrastructure, there is a unique design opportunity to reconsider the role of road networks and their effect on our contemporary urban landscape. This study analyses Montreal’s trenched Décarie Expressway to explore the potential space created by road infrastructure and its role as a key element in urban renewal. The urban design takes shape according to the specific characteristics of the neighborhoods adjacent to the Décarie axis. Remediation of these neighborhoods occurs here by introducing public spaces and inserting real-estate development over the expressway. The design concentrates on connecting pedestrian paths along a new public plinth. Since we have inherited the road infrastructure developed by modern car culture, we must begin to envision transportation infrastructure as an opportunity for public spaces with real three-dimensional connectivity that would marry civic needs with cultural amenities and ultimately symbolize the physical rehabilitation of the Décarie axis.
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"Adaptable micro urbanism streetscape evolution." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893952.
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Ngan Yuk Kei.<br>"Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report."<br>"May 2010."<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Chapter 01 --- background & objective<br>Chapter 02 --- Street Life Research<br>Chapter 03 --- Streetscape Parameters Identification<br>Chapter 04 --- Billboard to Billbox<br>Chapter 05 --- Activity Field Implication<br>Chapter 06 --- Parametric Exploration on hybrid potential<br>Chapter 07 --- Adapting Method in Micro Scale<br>Chapter 08 --- Exploration & Adapting Process<br>Chapter 09 --- From Micro to Urban Scale<br>Chapter 10 --- Evaluation<br>Chapter 11 --- Appendix
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Chiu, Yu-Yuan, and 邱攸園. "Study on the Cost-effectiveness of the Design Elements on Urban Streetscape." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98218467880118721429.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>園藝學研究所<br>92<br>This study discusses the effectiveness of contingent valuation method and contingent rating method in evaluating the landscape esthetics of streets. The research assess streetscape plans from both economic and psychological points of view and analyze the relative importance of design elements such as street vegetation and sidewalk pavements on the economic and preference-based values. The research conducted experiments by using computer-simulated images as virtual alternative of street design projects in Taipei City. The elements selected various types of design with a varying cost of street trees species, interval of trees, height of shrubbery, pavements material, pavements pattern, pavements color of sidewalk. The respondents participating in this experiment were asked to evaluate thirty-two alternatives by two kinds of questionnaires, contingent rating method was for students and contingent valuation method for landscape professions. In the economic evaluation of alternatives, the availability of landscape esthetics preference are seen as benefits, and these can be compared with the material cost of an alternative. This study use six indices for the economic evaluation of street design that include an acceptable cost derived from a contingent valuation method and composite indices related to the cost and benefits(cost(C), preference(P), acceptable cost(AC), P/C, AC/C, AC-C) and clarify their characteristics indicating cost-effectiveness. The results indicate that street trees species, interval of trees, height of shrubbery, pavements material, pavements pattern, pavements color of sidewalk would influence preference and cost-effectiveness. The respondents considered both landscape esthetics as well as material cost when they evaluate economic values of streetscape.In addition, the results suggests that AC-C is highly correlated to low cost plans and that P/C is a moderate index balancing high landscape preference and low cost.
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Wang, Kai-Szu, and 王楷絲. "A Study on Streetscape Perception and Preference under Urban Design Review –Using The 7th Land Consideration District in Taichung City as An Example." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44122570155338316346.
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碩士<br>朝陽科技大學<br>建築及都市設計研究所<br>99<br>It has been more than 20 years since Taichung City applied urban design to urban planning in 1986. Taichung New Civic Center Area is the first district to execute urban design from the beginning of planning in the 7th Land Consideration District . The consideration regional for the implement of urban design (new Civic Center Precinct) and the implement of urban design review (7th Land Consideration District), and the regional is not implementat of urban design (5th Land Consideration District) as a control group, the main Study was to investigate the different laws (the urban design review, urban design review, land use control points) to the established streetscape, public perceptions and preferences of the differences, then explore the streetscape design elements and streetscape perceived relevance.
There were 384 viewers interviewed in this study, including 158 experts and 226 non-experts. Descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson correlation were adopted to analyze data. From the result, it is known that people feel better about streets that have received the transformation of urban design deliberation than those haven’t. Besides, people feel little difference between the streets constructed under urban design censorship and urban design deliberation. Have received professional courses and without professional courses of the subjects, different laws to construct the streetscape of the feelings have little difference, mainly in the "complexity", "management" and"harmony" a significant part of differences.
Combining all the analysis, it is suggested that for regulation of design elements on street views, emphasis should be put on the regulations of the followings: the specification of advertising signs and where they could be placed, the beautification of transformer box design, plant spacing, and the setting of sidewalks which are wider than 2 meters. The future landscape planning in the streets, set the location for advertising signs and regulate their specifications can improve the streetscape of the order ; plants pitch if more intensive, it will be more rich and vivid landscape, Landscaping design for the transformer box, can improve very vivid and attractive streetscape; To improve streetscape gives a sense of security and harmony, but also strengthen the transformer box landscaping design; to make people more like the streets Landscape and can also feel a sense of pleasure, then set the location for the advertising signs.