title: Effects of boundary height and horizontal size within boundary on perceived enclosure.
abstract: The permeability theory of environmental design predicts that perceived enclosure will be more strongly related to boundary properties such as height as opposed to the size of a horizontal area within a boundary. An experiment on perceived enclosure, provided by 24 participants on 12 spaces in a park, indicated that enclosure correlated at .85 with boundary height and -.60 with horizontal area. These results were as predicted by permeability theory.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Quality, 290 Rutledge Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. InstituteOfEnvironmentalQuality@comcast.net
authors.forename: Arthur E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Stamps
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012858:Size Perception; D013028:Space Perception; D055815:Young Adult