Are suburbs perceived as rural villages? Landscape-related residential preferences in Switzerland

Ströbele, Maarit Felicitas; Hunziker, Marcel

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.015

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“…Second, we focused on explaining variation in perceived visual landscape quality, landscape satisfaction and place attachment between municipalities. The sprawl and fragmentation associated with urbanisation are typically viewed as negative by residents, particularly in more rural environments (Ströbele and Hunziker 2017). Likewise we would expect a positive effect of the diversity of landscape composition, because landscapes that offer high visual diversity are commonly preferred (Kaplan and Kaplan 1989).…”

Section: Municipality-level Hypothesesmentioning

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Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment

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Context It is essential for policy-making and planning that we understand landscapes not only in terms of landscape ecological patterns, but also in terms of their contribution to people's quality of life. Objectives In this study our objective is to test relationships between landscape ecology and social science indicators, by investigating how landscape patterns are linked to people’s perception of landscape quality. Methods To assess public views on landscapes we conducted a survey among 858 respondents in Switzerland. We combined this survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment with landscape metrics (e.g. diversity, naturalness of land cover, urban sprawl, fragmentation) in a statistical model to test hypotheses about the relationships between the different variables of interest. Results Our results illustrate the contribution of both landscape composition metrics and social science indicators to understanding variation in people’s perception and assessment of landscape. For example, we found the landscape ecology metrics on urban sprawl and fragmentation to be a negative predictor of overall satisfaction with landscape, and that perceived landscape quality positively predicted place attachment and satisfaction with the municipality landscape. Conclusions This study highlights the importance and feasibility of combining landscape ecology metrics and public survey data on how people perceive, value and relate to landscape in an integrated manner. Our approach has the potential for implementation across a variety of settings and can contribute to holistic and integrated landscape assessments that combine ecological and socio-cultural aspects.

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“…Based on life experiences, individuals, groups or entire societies fulfil their needs and determine their landscape demands, which arein an ideal case -then communicated via multiple forms of landscape negotiation into planning action or changes in land use. We observe that these landscape negotiations go far beyond functional aspects and are increasingly centered around place meanings, involving societal discourses on lifestyles (Stroebele and Hunziker, 2017). As shown by, e.g., Devine-Wright and Batel (2017), place attachment and meanings play an important role in accepting or rejecting infrastructure projects.…”

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“…Table 1 highlights some examples of population segments that are highly relevant for studying place attachment in mobile societies. There should be a special focus on how mobile people perceive landscapes, either in terms of self-reflection (experiences and achievements) or social integration (values, norms, symbols and meanings) (Hunziker et al, 2007;Ströbele & Hunziker, 2017). In addition, focus-group studies should gather the visual, sensual and socialpsychological landscape demands of the target groups.…”

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Generating meaningful landscapes for globalized mobile societies: pushing an international research agenda

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ContextPeople's well-being is influenced by the ability to establish a bond with a place and attach meanings to it.Many studies show that the longer people reside in a place, the stronger their place attachment becomes. In today's global societies, the length of residency is vastly reduced because of, e.g., individualistic lifestyles, global workplaces and forced migration (e.g., caused by war or climate change). This trend challenges landscape science: people increasingly need places (landscapes) that can be appropriated easily and quickly by many cultural groups. At the same time, however, these places should not simply become trivial and exchangeable. ObjectivesPlace attachment/place making studies have become popular in landscape science. However, we have identified a deficit in both the development and application of theory. The research agenda proposed here shall initiate a fundamental discourse on balancing the demands of a global society with the requirements for sustainable landscapes. Methods Literature review Results/ConclusionsWe propose a research agenda with the following pillars: (1) to expand theories and concepts of place attachment, to accommodate the new and unprecedented drivers generated by 21 st century mobile societies,(2) to improve the understanding of how landscapes afford place attachment and identity-building in both long-and short-term resident and migrant groups, and (3) to establish scientific knowledge on the inclusive role of landscapes. Proposed research methods range from qualitative social science studies, in-situ interviews and psychological experiments to the use of social media data and 3D landscape visualization tools.

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“…However, modern rural landscapes are at risk of abandonment and degradation, and the erosion of rural land by urbanization has led to the use of rural land in modern times, such as Agricultural intensi cation and land abandonment (Strbele and Hunziker 2017;Dolejš et al 2019;Li et al 2021). Urbanization has not only changed the traditional rural low-intensity land use (Banerjee and Srivastava 2013;Lieskovský et al 2015;Pedroli et al 2016) has also revolutionized rural landscape vision, ecological diversity, and biocultural heterogeneity (Hartel et al 2010;Gottero and Cassatella 2017).…”

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Integrated Framework of Rural Landscape Research: Based on the Global Perspective

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Context In recent years, the important value of rural landscape has been highlighted in tourism, cultural heritage, ecology and other fields, rural landscape research (RLR) has been paid more and more attention by researchers, with the deepening of research, RLR has the characteristics of diversity and complexity.Objectives To understand the development trend of RLR in the past 20 years, the distribution of research power, research hotspots and frontal research, to comb through the relevant results of RLR, to analyze the progress of RLR, and finally to integrate the main contents of RLR in a framework.Methods 735 related literatures were selected from the WoS Core Collection Database, and the papers on RLR from 1992 to 2020 were quantitatively data mined and qualitatively summarized by using Bibliometrics and VOSviwer software for mapping and analysis.Results (1) The number of papers on RLR increased from 1992 to 2020, during which it gradually became a hotspot research field that attracted increasing global attention. (2) From the research strength, Europe has a great influence in RLR, and has issued a series of conventions and protection policies, making its rural landscape become a model of modern rural development. There is little international cooperation and exchange in RLR, which is not conducive to the development of disciplines. Landscape & Urban Planning journals fit the theme of RLR. (3) The five hotspots of RLR are: rural cultural landscape and rural development; rural tourism landscape, the matching of landscape value and landscape perception; urban-rural interaction, land use change and landscape pattern conflict; change of ecosystem service value; rural landscape planning, protection and management.Conclusions RLR has developed from a study based on geography and ecology to a comprehensive research direction combining multidisciplinary and multi-methods of social and economic development, culture and other elements. At present, RLR covers the ecological landscape, production landscape, tourism landscape and cultural landscape of rural landscape system, changes from static pattern of rural landscape to dynamic evolution process, urban-rural interaction, ecosystem service and multifunctional landscape trade-off, and changes from single dimension to multi-dimensional in research paradigm, and combines “3S” technology and various landscape ecological model software. From the perspective of multidisciplinary research, from the perspective of rural landscape system, the correlation and mechanism between rural landscape multifunctionality, and dynamic monitoring and trend simulation, help to clarify the rural landscape multi-functional trade-off ideas and paths to guide the sustainable development of rural areas.

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Are suburbs perceived as rural villages? Landscape-related residential preferences in Switzerland

Cited by 24 publications

References 68 publications

Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment

Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment

Generating meaningful landscapes for globalized mobile societies: pushing an international research agenda

Integrated Framework of Rural Landscape Research: Based on the Global Perspective

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