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1988
How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the
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How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the
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From Environmental Aesthetics to Urban Aesthetics
2009An interview with Arnold Berleant published in Chinese on environmental aesthetics.
Berleant, Arnold, Xiangzhan, Cheng
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Journal of Planning Literature, 1998
The appearance or aesthetic of cities, towns, neighborhoods, or other sections of the built environment affects our daily activities. The aesthetics of an environment evokefeelings and emotions such as pleasure, relaxation, excitement, and fear. These emotional responses to theaesthetic qualities ofdifferent environments affect spatial behaviors.
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The appearance or aesthetic of cities, towns, neighborhoods, or other sections of the built environment affects our daily activities. The aesthetics of an environment evokefeelings and emotions such as pleasure, relaxation, excitement, and fear. These emotional responses to theaesthetic qualities ofdifferent environments affect spatial behaviors.
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Environmental Aesthetics and the Dilemma of Aesthetic Education
Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1976The clean up the environment movement is, of course, that movement which urges us to clean up our natural environment in regard to the junk, litter, and debris which presently clutter it. It is clearly an important movement with far-reaching consequences. In recent years it has expressed itself in numerous ways in our society; for example, in extensive
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ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND THE DYNAMIC OBJECT
Ethics & the Environment, 2006In this paper, I lay out a case for why those objects of aesthetic attention which are principally characterized as natural objects should be understood not statically, as existing in merely a three-dimensional fixed state, but as dynamic, as existing in a space-time context, complete with change, movement, and flux.
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Approaches to environmental aesthetics
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1982Abstract A synthesis of current empirical work in environmental aesthetics is overdue. Based on the twin criteria of methodological rigour and social relevance, four major approaches to environmental aesthetics are defined and described. A contemplative humanist approach is matched by goal-oriented activism.
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Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism
Ethics, Policy & Environment, 2011Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism Allen Carlson & Sheila Lintott (Eds.) New York, Columbia University Press, 2008, ix + 458 pp., cloth, $79.50, paper, $29.50 ISBN 978-0-231-13887-1 Nature, A...
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ISSUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS
Materials of the All-Russian National Conference, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Soil Science «LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE – FROM THE SOURCE TO INNOVATION»The modern ecological aesthetics of landscape architecture is very specific. There is nothing of the aesthetics of the past in it. The purpose of this work is to show a system of principles on the basis of which the aesthetics of modern urbanized spaces should be built.
I. Lukina, M. Trubitsyna
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