This article elaborates the landscape characteristics of some ancient towns in detail in Sichuan area combined with examples. Aiming at the negative influence from urbanization, some countermeasures are put forward su...This article elaborates the landscape characteristics of some ancient towns in detail in Sichuan area combined with examples. Aiming at the negative influence from urbanization, some countermeasures are put forward such as the need for legislation, respect for the natural environment, extension of the historical cultural significance of towns, and development of the cultural tourism industry and so on.展开更多
This study was conducted to find out the available visual diversity in Japanese residential streetscapes. The visual diversity occurs when the visual elements on streetscapes are different to each other. In this study...This study was conducted to find out the available visual diversity in Japanese residential streetscapes. The visual diversity occurs when the visual elements on streetscapes are different to each other. In this study, a field survey as a subjective method and the entropy as an objective method were used as measures of visual diversity. Data were collected from 80 residential streetscapes from four sites in the Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The sequential perspective views of streetscapes were analyzed for eight visual elements： shape of houses, shape of roofs, shape of windows, positions of the main openings of houses, availability of the ornaments on houses, height, color and the appearance of the boundary walls of premises to calculate the entropy. A field survey with multicultural subjects was used to find out the correlation between entropy and the human perception on the visual diversity. According to the results, the residential streetscapes displayed high diversity variations largely due to the shape of the roofs, shape of the windows and the appearance of the boundary walls of the premises. Moreover, the results concluded that the residential streetscapes at the study area are neither visually diverse nor visually uniform in considering the visual diversity aspect.展开更多
基金Supported by the 11th 5-year Scientific Supporting Project Fund of the Ministry of Science and Technology(2006BAJ01A12-06)the 11th 5-year Planning Philosophy and Social Science Project of Sichuan Province(SC06B014)~~
文摘This article elaborates the landscape characteristics of some ancient towns in detail in Sichuan area combined with examples. Aiming at the negative influence from urbanization, some countermeasures are put forward such as the need for legislation, respect for the natural environment, extension of the historical cultural significance of towns, and development of the cultural tourism industry and so on.
文摘This study was conducted to find out the available visual diversity in Japanese residential streetscapes. The visual diversity occurs when the visual elements on streetscapes are different to each other. In this study, a field survey as a subjective method and the entropy as an objective method were used as measures of visual diversity. Data were collected from 80 residential streetscapes from four sites in the Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The sequential perspective views of streetscapes were analyzed for eight visual elements： shape of houses, shape of roofs, shape of windows, positions of the main openings of houses, availability of the ornaments on houses, height, color and the appearance of the boundary walls of premises to calculate the entropy. A field survey with multicultural subjects was used to find out the correlation between entropy and the human perception on the visual diversity. According to the results, the residential streetscapes displayed high diversity variations largely due to the shape of the roofs, shape of the windows and the appearance of the boundary walls of the premises. Moreover, the results concluded that the residential streetscapes at the study area are neither visually diverse nor visually uniform in considering the visual diversity aspect.
