Sound as a non-visual component of landscape, has a significant impact on individuals perception of space. Because unlike the landscape that seeing and looking is totally an optional action, soundscape regardless of people comes to be heard and understood. Lack of attention to quality of emitted sounds in the environment may leads to problems such as noise pollution, lack of concentration, nois...

Social animals have to make collective decisions on a daily basis. In most instances, these decisions are taken by consensus, when the group does what the majority of individuals want. Individuals have to base these decisions on the information they perceive from their socioecological landscape. The perception mechanisms they use can influence the cost of collective decisions. Here I show that ...

Kaplan, R. and Herbert, E. J., 1987. Cultural and sub-cultural comparisons in preferences for natural settings. Landscape Urban Plann., 14: 281-293. Although studies of preferences for natural environments across cultures have tended to find rather high agreement, most studies have concentrated on correlationalfindings. Analyses of actual preference levels and of perceptual categories yield a m...

In this paper we address a frontier topic in the humanities, namely how the cultural and natural construction that we call landscape affects well-being and health. Following an updated review of evidence-based literature in the fields of medicine, psychology, and architecture, we propose a new theoretical framework called "processual landscape," which is able to explain both the health-landscap...

An action-oriented perspective changes the role of an individual from a passive observer to an actively engaged agent interacting in a closed loop with the world as well as with others. Cognition exists to serve action within a landscape that contains both. This chapter surveys this landscape and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential infl uence on science and the study of co...

“It is tiresome and even humbling for the observer to be thus fettered, to be obliged to carry with him everywhere the centre of the landscape he is crossing. But what happens when chance directs his steps to a point of vantage (a cross-roads, or intersecting valleys) from which, not only his vision, but things themselves radiate? In that event the subjective viewpoint coincides with the way th...

For many academics and policy makers the concept of landscape is associated with ‘land as it is seen’. In this paper I consider some of the literature which traces this association of landscape with the sense of sight. I focus on the suggestion that notions and concepts related to landscape are symptomatic of a pervasive ‘ocular-centrism’ within western thought. I then highlight the ocular-cent...

In this paper, the very original urban landscape perception caused by emergency after 2020’ New CoronaVirus Pandemic event will be discussed and analyzed. Most of approaches conducted on social media newspaper have pointed to putting in evidence spectacular empty cities “as never seen before”, which thing is absolutely correct underlines a unique condition otherwise almost impossible experience...