Without the surrounding environment of a site, architecture loses its full meaning. In the evolutionof the design process, a site's environment should be understood as the integral factor within which a designed productor artifact is expected to perform. The environment is not of secondary priority. Every building is intertwined with itscontext; context being its physical, visual and ecological...

introduction the urban population experienced rapid growth in the recent decades, particularly between 1975 and 2000 when it has reached from 1.5 to more than 2 billion people. by turn of the century; half of the world's populations are concentrated in cities. this would severely affect the quality of life in urban areas. accordingly, cities will be faced with significant challenges in inf...

Kevin Lyn The Image of the City remains one of the most important books in environmental design research. Its approach relies upon behavioral observations and systematic surveys of environmental cognition. We can perceive only what we see; thus, sight is the most important sense in landscape design. The spaces and objects of landscape design are stored temporally in the mind; they cannot be use...

We have interpreted a landscape as something that is built on the relationship between a person’s “self” and an environment around the person. Then, we have adopted ostranenie to the field of landscape study and defined it as phenomenon in which the relationship is broken and revitalized with a certain catalyst and a new landscape is produced in person’s mind based on the revitalized relationsh...

Landscape connectivity combines a description of the physical structure of the landscape with special species’ response to that structure, which forms the theoretical background of applying landscape connectivity principles in the practices of landscape planning and design. In this study, a residential development project in the southern United States was used to explore the meaning of landscap...

The unique geography and climatic condition determines the landscape environment characteristics of mountain village in western China. In recent years, with the fast development of the urban-rural integration and urbanization process, the traditional rural landscape is gradually transiting to the modern rural landscape. In the course of transformation, the natural patches and semi-natural patch...

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...