Preferences for unfamiliar urban environments were studied as a function of urban categories, viewing time, and four predictor variables: complexity, coherence, identifiability, and myster¥. A nonmetric factor analysis of the preference ratings for the Iongest viewing-time condition yielded live dimensions: Contemporary Life, Alley/Factory, Urban Nature, Unusual Architecture, and Older Building...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2384, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2013, pp. 74–84. DOI: 10.3141/2384-09 H. Ge and Y. Zhang, Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3136 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3136. J. D. Miles and P. J. Carlson, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texa...

Tall buildings are a significant feature of many urban skylines. The visual complexity of the tall buildings that make up the urban skyline can vary according to the degree of silhouette complexity and the extent to which the façade is articulated. This article reports a study in which 60 undergraduate psychology students ranked a set of 9 synthetic skylines according to either the perceived co...

Although there is a large and rapidly growing literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation, relatively little is known about the interrelation between the characteristics of start-up firms and urban structure. It is only recently that scholars of urban economics have suggested a theoretical link between the thickness of regional input markets and the complexity of ...

as the collective settlement of the modern man, the city forms the physical background for the human life. the urban lifestyle involves a set of formal, multi dimensional relations, and the urban residents get in touch with the various components of this set in their everyday life. the process of the formation and transformation of the cities can affect the stages of the social identification o...