introductionmain trend of ecotourism is nature and its beauties; so finding the beautiful landscapes and evaluating aesthetic values of the area would be considered as one of the principles of recreational planning. scenic beauty is a major component of every encounter with the natural environment in tourism and recreation activities. visual elements of landscape not only present aesthetical va...

The article investigates the difficult and controversial landscape of Taranto, a recently industrialised city southern Italy, which in last 70 years has undergone dramatic changes. We analyse what is material, cultural, symbolic terms, it does, means for Taranto. In particular, by analysing bibliographic, cartographic, audiovisual sources, we trace evolution contemporary indicating main factors...

In this study, we analyse how well saliency maps, which are theoretical predictions of the human viewing pattern, are correlated with human focus maps, obtained by tracking 42 observer’s eyes while freeviewing landscape photographs ranging from rural to urban environments. The Pearson’s correlation coefficient was calculated on the predicted and measured pixels’ greyscale values. A relatively h...

In this paper, the idea of considering public preferences in design of urban landscapes as restorative environments is explored. A visual landscape preference research was conducted among user groups in Slovenia. In the study, a questionnaire was used, which was based on a selection of landscape scenes. These represented different types of naturalistic and natural landscapes. Possibilities of a...

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...

The complex and ambiguous relations between Russia Finland at the turn of 19th 20th centuries were reflected in cultural sphere, particular, exhibitions most “pro-Western” art association “Mir Iskusstva” (World Art). image Finnish nature, created Art) exhibitions, revealed poetic charm natural, dim beauty northern landscape, which has common features with Central Russian landscape. He contribut...