Urban Landscape Planning and Design: Protection of Cultural Resources
The land form is a basis for urban planning. The most decisive characteristics of land form are shortly described. The protection of cultural landscape and historical monuments needs an objective description of landscape perception and urban morphology, including inter-subjective aspects of cognition. Urban planning and design must take into account objective aspects like filters of perception. Aesthetic evaluation is containing more subjective aspects (inter-subjective and personal ones): emotions, gestalt psychology, imaginary superficial resemblances, intangible resources. The scenic beauty estimation attempts to define the visual preferences of humans. Easy schemes are given. Conclusions are also possible for maximum heights of new planned high rise buildings in the vicinity of HUL/monuments depending on distance and relief position. The distance zones could be low building areas or free open space. Further studies should be done by international stakeholder groups. The network of deeper areas of valleys / depressions and the complementary network of higher areas of hill chains / elevations are the most sensitive areas for town planning and free open space design.
landform-diversity bio-diversity historic urban landscapes (HUL) urban morphology perception and cognition
Siegmar Thomas
Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Landscape Architecture, Germany
国际会议
苏州
英文
77-80
2010-05-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）