Landscape perception: Research, application and theory

https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2001/nc_2001_palmer_002.pdf

Rating reliability and representation validity in scenic landscape assessments

Perceived safety from crime in the urban environment

A brief review of the historical development is presented, followed by a review and critique of recent and current simulation media. The primary evaluative criteria are validity and reality of simulations. The media are categorized as static and dynamic and include photography, drawings, composite techniques, models, video, movie film, and computer generated graphics. An assessment of the current state-of-the-art is presented and key research issues are identified and include: the level of detail required for valid and realistic three-dimensional models; the validity and perceived reality of various styles and levels of detail in rendered plans and perspective sketches; the development in design students of the ability to conceptualize three dimensional environments from two dimensional simulations; the effectiveness of multi-modal simulations in enhancing similitude in perceptually more complex landscapes; and the importance of simulating landscape experiences as well as perceptions of landscapes.

Perceptual Landscape Simulations: History and Prospect

This article is a review of the first ten years of “prospect-refuge theory.” It discusses briefly the purposes and limitations of simple explanatory models and compares the theory specifically with the “Davisian cycle.” It identifies certain misconceptions about the theory and reviews some of the attempts that have been made to test it and to use it in landscape evaluation and landscape description and in literary and art criticism.

Peter Clamp

Papers

Prospect‐refuge theory under test

The landscape evaluation controversy

A study in the evaluation of landscape and the impact of roads