title: Spatial modelling of landscape aesthetic potential in urban-rural fringes.
abstract: The aesthetic potential of landscape has to be modelled to provide tools for land-use planning. This involves identifying landscape attributes and revealing individuals' landscape preferences. Landscape aesthetic judgments of individuals (n = 1420) were studied by means of a photo-based survey. A set of landscape visibility metrics was created to measure landscape composition and configuration in each photograph using spatial data. These metrics were used as explanatory variables in multiple linear regressions to explain aesthetic judgments. We demonstrate that landscape aesthetic judgments may be synthesized in three consensus groups. The statistical results obtained show that landscape visibility metrics have good explanatory power. Ultimately, we propose a spatial modelling of landscape aesthetic potential based on these results combined with systematic computation of visibility metrics.
authors.affiliation: ThéMA, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 32 rue Mégevand, 25030, Besançon Cedex, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 32 rue Mégevand, 25030, Besançon Cedex, France. Electronic address: yohan.sahraoui@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Yohan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sahraoui
authors.affiliation: LADYSS, UMR 7533 CNRS, Sorbonne Paris Cité, University Paris-Diderot, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clauzel
authors.affiliation: ThéMA, CNRS, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 32 rue Mégevand, 25030, Besançon Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Jean-Christophe
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Foltête
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002958:City Planning; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012424:Rural Population; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D018561:Space Simulation; D014505:Urban Population; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Judgment consensus; Landscape aesthetics; Landscape metrics; Photo survey; Visibility analysis