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The aim of the present study, which was carried out in three different cities of Turkey (Erzurum, Artvin, Tokat), is to determine satisfaction degree of urban people with the environment they live and to bring about their demands and biases for their living environs. The study includes totally 300 questionnaires conducted over subjects from each ci...
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... The purpose of this study is to examine the studies carried out in these areas and to make evaluations in terms of spatial landscape characteristics, since the theme parks, which are increasingly diversified and attracting attention, are one of the landscape design subjects. There are many studies such as determining the planning and design criteria for parks, user evaluations for parks (e.g.: Tarakci Eren et al., 2018;Yılmaz et al., 2015;Surat, 2017;Karaşah and Aşık, 2021;Kahveci et al., 2021). In this study, a scale was developed for the evaluation of theme parks according to spatial landscape characteristics. ...
... This study is extensive, in a sense that it includes a broad number of outdoor recreation areas that were rated as the most popular recreation areas by respondents. This gives the study additional/particular significance/importance, at least in the case of Turkey, as most studies on recreational area use in Istanbul [58,[60][61][62] and in other cities (e.g., [64,65]) have been more limited in their geographical scope of recreational areas. ...
Although outdoor recreation participation has been studied extensively, little research has come from less developed regions of the world. This paper examined outdoor recreation participation and its predictors in Istanbul, an increasingly urbanized and populated megacity, in Turkey. The results show that nearly half of the people interviewed in this study had claimed to visit a nature area at least once a week or more often, nearly three-quarters invested a travel time to these areas of between 30 min to 2 h, about two-thirds spent more than 2 h at the area, and about one-third was engaged in leisurely walking. The frequency of visits was almost the single predictor of travel time. Visit frequencies were predicted by the travel time and visit length. Activity type and traveling longer than 2 h predicted the length of visits. Recreational activity type was predicted by visit length and travel time. Socio-demographic variables were associated with only a few outdoor participation variables. The findings imply that the residents have limited contact with nature and limited opportunity to benefit from such interaction.
... In this context, urban design has to deal the people and their ways of interaction with the city (Aslan and Atik 2015). Destroying nature, unconscious and unplanned housing (Yilmaz et al. 2015) and high-rise and dense buildings (Cetin 2015; Surat and Yaman 2015) cause imbalance between the built environment and natural environment and in decreases in the visual quality value of the environment (Yilmaz et al. 2015 ). As a result of this, humanenvironment interaction breaks off (Gulturk and Sisman 2015), and the levels of perception and preference of environments decrease gradually. ...
... In this context, urban design has to deal the people and their ways of interaction with the city (Aslan and Atik 2015). Destroying nature, unconscious and unplanned housing (Yilmaz et al. 2015) and high-rise and dense buildings (Cetin 2015; Surat and Yaman 2015) cause imbalance between the built environment and natural environment and in decreases in the visual quality value of the environment (Yilmaz et al. 2015 ). As a result of this, humanenvironment interaction breaks off (Gulturk and Sisman 2015), and the levels of perception and preference of environments decrease gradually. ...
... The fact that historicity plays an important role in landscape perception and preference was established later on in the studies of Strumse (1994), Hägerhäll (1999), Tveit et al. (2006), Ode et al. (2008and Aytas and Uzun (2015). Moreover, the studies conducted emphasized the importance of the existence of water and green areas as the features increasing the quality of a city (Yilmaz et al. 2015). From the results of this paper, it was concluded that historical texture and water-city relation of old scenes were disregarded with new housing in new scenes; and this had a negative effect on the preference of people. ...
In order to meet the needs and desires of the community and to shape the environment successfully it is important to reveal how we perceive the landscape and the factors that affect our preferences for different landscapes. This study focused on the role of several visual quality concepts, including complexity, coherence and historicity, and on the preference for changing the scenery of a city. To fulfill the objectives of the research, 107 people were asked to evaluate old and new scenes of Trabzon city using these concepts, and their preferences for various scenes were identified. Findings showed that complexity, coherence and historicity have an influence on environmental preferences. An inverse U-shape relationship was found between complexity and preference. The scenes with a medium level of complexity were preferred to the scenes with a higher or lower level of complexity. Coherence and historicity were found to be directly related to preference. In this paper, the general features of complexity, historicity and coherence were considered valid for assessment and preference of the urban scene.
In recent years, Bucharest’s residential dynamics have thrived, fueled by growing demand and an insufficient housing fund. This study aimed to analyze the residential satisfaction of those living in newly built dwellings. Its objectives were to identify the characteristics of three new residential areas and analyze the satisfaction level among residents regarding both their dwellings and neighborhoods. The investigation employed direct observations during the fieldwork phase (through observation sheets and mapping methods) and surveys (through questionnaires with residents and interviews with developers). Its results highlighted spaces that exhibit an increase in residential constructions, with a tendency to expand toward suburban areas, without necessarily meeting legislative requirements. When measuring the population’s residential satisfaction level, the study observed a general satisfaction regarding dwellings’ modernity and price but noticeable differences within the sample residential nuclei. The solutions proposed by residents mainly target authorities, who were held responsible for developing the urban infrastructure prior to granting building permits, as well as for vetting developers better and requiring them to respect the legislation. Hence, scientists, local authorities, real-estate developers and the local population represent the beneficiaries of the current study’s results.
