There is strong evidence that pigeons use visual cues to navigate within the familiar area [1], and that visual landmarks constitute an important part of the familiar area map [2]. However, the precise role of the visual landscape in familiar area navigation remains controversial. In particular, the strongest evidence for visual landmark use – the development and recapitulation of idiosyncratic...

This paper investigates residents' perceptions of scenic quality in the Cape Cod community of Dennis, Massachusetts during a period of significant landscape change. In the mid-1 970s, Chandler [Natural and Visual Resources, Dennis, Massachusetts. Dennis Conservation Commission and Planning Board, Dennis, MA, 19761 worked with a community group to evaluate the natural resources of their town, an...

In many domains, it becomes more and more common that an analysis spans various interlinked data sources that we collectively term data landscape. Yet for the selection of appropriate data sources from the wide range of available ones, current approaches and systems rarely offer more support than a File-Opendialog. This paper presents a visualization approach that aims to give a stable and mean...

Although perceptions of landscape aesthetics are currently attracting great research interest, some aspects of the topic have remained almost unexamined. This review highlights some less studied areas that are of particular importance for landscape management, with special focus on rapidly growing exurban areas. While the visual quality of the environment is undoubtedly one of the drivers that ...

After decades of being ignored, the concept beauty, as understood by non-architect, has recently been making a comeback in architecture, not so much practice itself, appeals for design solutions that are more human-centered and dictated abstract principles. Architectural beauty needs to be evaluated from its effects on human health. This study discusses two diagnostic tools measuring degree arc...