Hussein, D; Sarkar, S and Armstrong, P (2018) Mapping preferences for the number of built elements. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 7(1), pp. 53-67. ISSN 2046-6099
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of design elements in the context of building facades in urban streetscapes and visual preferences of users to enable a more meaningful citizen participation in the design of local streetscapes. Design/methodology/approach: This paper developed a web application, which manages experiments through programmatically creating scenes and displaying them online to participants using questionnaires. It collects preferences towards the number of design elements in the scenes and determines the statistical relationship between them. Findings: The results offer an empirical description of a semi-convex relationship between the number of elements and preferences. They confirm that participants from a particular area inter-subjectively agree in their visual judgements towards the number of design elements, and justify the employment of a regression model fitted on the preferences of residents to assess design proposal in their area. Originality/value: The paper offers an empirical description of the relationships between preferences and a wide range of values of the number of design elements and empirically supports that people from one area inter-subjectively agree in their judgements towards a visual aspect of the building facades. The study introduces a new analytical component, known as the vertex, which could alter future methods on the visual evaluation of the built environment.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building façade; design elements; participatory design; streetscape; urban design; visual assessment |
| Index terms: | questionnaire, mapping, citizen participation, methodology, participatory design, visual aspect, preference, urban design, proposal, experiment, built environment, regression model, employment |
| Subjects: | infrastructure and transport systems, statistical analysis, management, design elements, spatial and geospatial analysis, decision-making and reasoning, research methods, urban design, participation process, project planning, data collection methods, design methods |
| Topics: | Human Resources, Design Practice, Urban Studies, Stakeholder Management, Research Practice, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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