TY - JOUR
T1 - Affective appraisal of residents and visual elements in the neighborhood
T2 - A case study in an established suburban community
AU - Zhang, Heng
AU - Lin, Shih Hsien
N1 - Funding Information:
The research is supported by the National Science Council (Taiwan) grant NSC96-2511-S-006-002-MY3 . Special thanks to Mei-Chun Luo for her effort in collecting data for this study. We also thank the valuable review comments and suggestions from three anonymous reviewers.
PY - 2011/5/15
Y1 - 2011/5/15
N2 - Urban dwellers perceive and respond affectively to the streetscape they live within everyday. Understanding the relationship between the visual elements and the aesthetic response that result from affective appraisal of the neighborhood becomes key to successful planning. This study investigates the underlying factors of community affective appraisal and identifies their predictive visual elements in the neighborhood of a Taiwanese suburban community. Consistent with previous findings, factor analysis reveals the two primary dimensions of affective appraisal to be pleasure and arousal. Various attributes of visual elements in the neighborhood, e.g. open space, buildings, community signage, trees, street furniture and pavement are significant predictors of affective appraisal factors. Specifically, the salience of trees and openness of open space may simultaneously induce pleasure and arousal, resulting in a positive emotion of high intensity. These findings shed light on the basis of residents' affective appraisal of an established community and are instructive in the practice of community design.
AB - Urban dwellers perceive and respond affectively to the streetscape they live within everyday. Understanding the relationship between the visual elements and the aesthetic response that result from affective appraisal of the neighborhood becomes key to successful planning. This study investigates the underlying factors of community affective appraisal and identifies their predictive visual elements in the neighborhood of a Taiwanese suburban community. Consistent with previous findings, factor analysis reveals the two primary dimensions of affective appraisal to be pleasure and arousal. Various attributes of visual elements in the neighborhood, e.g. open space, buildings, community signage, trees, street furniture and pavement are significant predictors of affective appraisal factors. Specifically, the salience of trees and openness of open space may simultaneously induce pleasure and arousal, resulting in a positive emotion of high intensity. These findings shed light on the basis of residents' affective appraisal of an established community and are instructive in the practice of community design.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.010
DO - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.12.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953697081
SN - 0169-2046
VL - 101
SP - 11
EP - 21
JO - Landscape and Urban Planning
JF - Landscape and Urban Planning
IS - 1
ER -