The approach presented suggests a new way of supporting planning processes. Planners from various disciplines can test and discuss planning scenarios at a workbench, where a virtual landscape is visualized in a 3D real-time environment. With the defined paradigm of ‘landscape editing’, planners can model and manipulate virtual landscapes intuitively. They can transform, add, move and delete by ...

Landscape metrics are used in landscape ecology to quantify landscape characteristics related to structure, function and change by quantifying the structure and distributional pattern of landscape elements such as plants, animals and other physical landscape features. To date, there has been little published research on landscape metrics that include social perceptions of landscape. In this pap...

2/ Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley. Landscape Architect, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif. Abstract: Descriptive landscape analyses include various procedures used to document visual/scenic resources. Historic and regional examples of landscape description represent desirable insight for contemporary professional inve...

the recognition of human bioclimatic comfort in geographical area is an important factor for planning of ecotourism. climate is a very important component to identify natural landscape values. for better planning and management of landscape units such as recreational purposes, there is a need for emphasis on the visual aesthetic aspects, and also for understanding the climatic effects on recrea...

Landscape has acquired great importance in the urban and territorial policies of European countries after Convention. Italy a long tradition protection landscape cultural heritage, characterised by particular attention to history identity culture communities. The main rule this field, Code Cultural Heritage 2004 (Urbani Code), refers mix environmental, cultural, social factors belonging differe...

Criteria need to be developed to evaluate the cultural environment of European rural landscapes. The goal is to evaluate and encourage the contribution of organic farming to sustainable landscape quality. Two sets of criteria were used to evaluate the quality of the cultural environment, non-expert and expert values. The non-expert values consisted of criteria for the appreciation of the presen...

urban design and landscape architecture are considered as modern art (knowledge) which are developed through integration of various art and science fields of studies. formal emergence of urban design in 60s and landscape design is occurred at the beginning of 20th century. the success of these two fields is because of their attention to environmental qualities upgrade in public and open spaces ...