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Major coastal management and planning techniques
Published in Robert Kay, Jacqueline Alder, Coastal Planning and Management, 2017
Landscape values are an everyday part of our lives and are increasingly being considered in coastal management programs. There are obvious benefits from landscape assessment such as better resource management, improved experiences for people using the coasts, protection of tourism assets, less land use conflict, stronger local identity for developments, and greater support for management authorities. As with other resource areas, the best results are obtained by specialists who understand the role of the various assessment techniques and who recognise the opportunities that assessment reveals. This is not to exclude the important role that the public plays in determining values and lobbying for their protection, for it is the response to public interest which has been the driving force behind most visual and landscape assessment work.
A Novel Approach for the Assessment of the Nocturnal Image of the Cultural Landscape
Published in LEUKOS, 2023
Lodovica Valetti, Franco Pellerey, Anna Pellegrino
The indications provided in planning and management policies are based on the analysis of factors (visual indicators), which are able to describe the perceived visual quality of the landscape, and which can be defined through landscape assessment methodologies (Ode et al. 2008). Therefore, different approaches and theories for assessing the visual character of the landscape and methods for measuring and mapping landscape visual perception and preferences have been proposed in literature, in order to meet the challenges of integrating knowledge about people’s perception and landscape visual character in planning and management policies (see overview in Daniel 2001; Fry et al. 2009; Ode et al. 2008; Steg et al. 2013; Tveit et al. 2006).
What happened to Abu Dhabi’s urbanism? The question of regional integration
Published in Journal of Urban Design, 2018
Khaled Alawadi, Ouafa Benkraouda
Studying the built landscape is a major part of understanding the performance characteristics of different neighbourhood patterns and their environmental behaviour and implications (Wheeler 2015). Built-landscape assessment also allows researchers to analyze the interaction of neighbourhood physical features to understand proximity, compactness, land-use diversity, connectivity and the implications of each of these for regional planning. These metrics are a few of the many proxies used to measure ‘successfulness’ in an effort to guide choices about which “built-landscapes to encourage, discourage, retrofit or replace” (Wheeler 2015, 168).