Measuring oppressiveness of streetscapes

Asgarzadeh, Morteza; Lusk, Anne C.; Koga, Tomohiro; Hirate, Kotaroh

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.04.001

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“…Street greenery is a public resource that provides residents aesthetic value and ecological benefits in addition to other, unconscious benefits. For instance, trees along roads could reduce the oppressiveness of high-rise and high-density buildings [3,4]. Some studies have indicated that exposure to greenery in hospitals can improve patients' moods and accelerate their recovery [5].…”

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Impacts of Street-Visible Greenery on Housing Prices: Evidence from a Hedonic Price Model and a Massive Street View Image Dataset in Beijing

Zhang

Dong

2018

IJGI

131

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Street greenery is a component of urban green infrastructure. By forming foundational green corridors in urban ecological systems, street greenery provides vital ecological, social, and cultural functions, and benefits the wellbeing of citizens. However, because of the difficulty of quantifying people's visual perceptions, the impact of street-visible greenery on housing prices has not been fully studied. Using Beijing, which has a mature real estate market, as an example, this study evaluated 22,331 transactions in 2014 in 2370 private housing estates. We selected 25 variables that were classified into three categories-location, housing, and neighbourhood characteristics-and introduced an index called the horizontal green view index (HGVI) into a hedonic pricing model to measure the value of the visual perception of street greenery in neighbouring residential developments. The results show that (1) Beijing's homebuyers would like to reside in residential units with a higher HGVI; (2) Beijing's homebuyers favour larger lakes; and (3) Beijing's housing prices were impacted by the spatial development patterns of the city centre and multiple business centres. We used computer vision to quantify the street-visible greenery and estimated the economic benefits that the neighbouring visible greenery would have on residential developments in Beijing. This study provides a scientific basis and reference for policy makers and city planners in road greening, and a tool for formulating street greening policy, studying housing price characteristics, and evaluating real estate values.

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Impacts of Street-Visible Greenery on Housing Prices: Evidence from a Hedonic Price Model and a Massive Street View Image Dataset in Beijing

Zhang

Dong

2018

IJGI

131

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“…Additionally, trees can help alleviate the sense of oppressiveness in crowded urban areas by bringing other benefits such as an aesthetic pleasing effect (Tyrväinen et al, 2003;Escobedo et al, 2011). For example, placement of trees in front of buildings could reduce the unpleasantness of the environment, especially when located in front of taller buildings (Asgarzadeh et al, 2012).…”

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“…Aspect ratios and building spacing are of particular interest as they also exert effects on shading provision (Ali-Toudert and Mayer, 2006;Takebayashi and Moriyama, 2012), urban air quality (Kastner-Klein et al, 2004;Liu et al, 2005;Ng and Chau, 2014;Vardoulakis et al, 2003) and oppressivenes (Asgarzadeh et al, 2012).…”

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Preferences for street configuration and street tree planting in urban Hong Kong

Chau

Powell

et al. 2015

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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“…Individual elements should not be painted in individual colors: it is better to use similar balanced combinations for individual elements. If the shape of an object is complex, the color scheme should be simplified, and vice versa (Asgarzadeh, 2012;Ruskin, 2017).…”

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Facade Systems Colour Schemes of New Dormitory Towns in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Asylgaraeva

Luchinin

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2018

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Fast and extensive transformation of cities is a quite widespread practice nowadays, but it has a disadvantage in affecting the quality of architectural spaces. The main task of architecture, i.e. space arrangement, shall address not only physical needs for comfort, but also visual ones. By means of facade color schemes, it is possible to make a positive impact on the human psychological condition and create a more favorable visual environment. A great number of developers also represents one of the main issues of such large-scale city transformation. At the design stage, the appearance of a new project is not always aligned with the appearance of the existing buildings.Based on the experience of architects and theoreticians in coloristics and psychology of the spatial environment, modern districts of Saint Petersburg located both in the city and in its vicinity were selected for the analysis conducted in this paper. The study involves identifying the color schemes used as well as a possible impact of such choice on the community. Recommendations on improving the visual architectural space are given. KeywordsColor environment, coloristics, psychology of the spatial environment.

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Measuring oppressiveness of streetscapes

Cited by 72 publications

References 24 publications

Impacts of Street-Visible Greenery on Housing Prices: Evidence from a Hedonic Price Model and a Massive Street View Image Dataset in Beijing

Impacts of Street-Visible Greenery on Housing Prices: Evidence from a Hedonic Price Model and a Massive Street View Image Dataset in Beijing

Preferences for street configuration and street tree planting in urban Hong Kong

Facade Systems Colour Schemes of New Dormitory Towns in Saint Petersburg, Russia

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