this paper offers a report about the professional workshop of researching tehran which was held in august 2015 in tehran along with the fourth and fifth conference on urban landscape phenomenology. in this regard denis delbaere and frédéric poussin, experts on landscape and territorial planning, and professors of universities in france, explained their first impressions of tehran in their first...

The term “interactive 3D visualisation” has been defined as “a simulation employing real time 3D graphics to represent the visual form of an area of landscape in which the user can control the viewing position to freely explore all the aspects of the land form” (MORGAN ET AL. 2009). Bishop (2005) and Schroth (2007) conclude that interactive 3D visualisations are suitable for facilitating discus...

his article as: Fukuda, T ulation. Frontiers of A Abstract The need for visual landscape assessment in large-scale projects for the evaluation of the effects of a particular project on the surrounding landscape has grown in recent years. Augmented reality (AR) has been considered for use as a landscape simulation system in which a landscape assessment object created by 3D models is included in ...

In this paper we explore a relational understanding of landscape qualities. We asked three independent groups of human observers to assess the expressive qualities of a range of landscapes in the UK and in Spain, either by means of personal visits or from a projected digital image. We employed a Free Choice Profiling (FCP) methodology, in which observers generated their own descriptive terminol...

The public’s demand for more and better forest landscapes is increasing as scenic forest tours flourish in China, especially in the capital, Beijing. How to improve the quality of scenic forests has become one of the greatest concerns of urban foresters. Although numerous studies have focused on scenic forest management, to date, no reports have been found on developing a quality assessment ind...

Landscape character can be defined as the presence, variety and arrangement of landscape features, which give a landscape a specific identity and make it stand out from surrounding landscapes. Landscape character contributes to the esthetical and perceptional value of an area, which is important for the development of non-production functions in the countryside as demanded by society. In this p...