Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments
Streets are one of the major elements that make-up the urban environment. Urban commercial and mixed-use street types occur as public spaces in every town and city all around the world. With the paucity of such spaces, streets have taken up to solve the problem. Hence, this study assesses the key ph...
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| description | Streets are one of the major elements that make-up the urban environment. Urban commercial and mixed-use street types occur as public spaces in every town and city all around the world. With the paucity of such spaces, streets have taken up to solve the problem. Hence, this study assesses the key physical, visual, and aesthetical characteristics and examines the influence of aesthetical attributes over the activity pattern, user behavioral responses, and the color palette observed. Moreover, this research has been carried out in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. Four significant commercial streets were identified and featured in the main study. The research method comprehends a structured questionnaire and multiple interviews to amass data, photo elicitation, and video corroboration to identify the key visual characteristics to study and scrutinize the aesthetical responses to various attributes that make good-looking urban commercial and mixed-use street types. The results of the study indicate that the diversity and perceived pleasantness of the environment, which includes elements such as facades, colors, aspect ratios, maintenance, and vegetation, has a very close association with walking preferences. The outcome of the study would also help architects, urban designers and planners, and policy makers to create positive spaces to foster urban commercial street types as place-making and aesthetically pleasing streets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b66a4907c6424ab68629993a2d5351722022-12-22T04:26:14ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Frontiers of Architectural Research2095-26352022-10-01115949962Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environmentsSanjana Balasubramanian0Chandramathy Irulappan1Jinu Louishidha Kitchley2Corresponding author.; Department of Architecture, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IndiaDepartment of Architecture, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IndiaDepartment of Architecture, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IndiaStreets are one of the major elements that make-up the urban environment. Urban commercial and mixed-use street types occur as public spaces in every town and city all around the world. With the paucity of such spaces, streets have taken up to solve the problem. Hence, this study assesses the key physical, visual, and aesthetical characteristics and examines the influence of aesthetical attributes over the activity pattern, user behavioral responses, and the color palette observed. Moreover, this research has been carried out in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. Four significant commercial streets were identified and featured in the main study. The research method comprehends a structured questionnaire and multiple interviews to amass data, photo elicitation, and video corroboration to identify the key visual characteristics to study and scrutinize the aesthetical responses to various attributes that make good-looking urban commercial and mixed-use street types. The results of the study indicate that the diversity and perceived pleasantness of the environment, which includes elements such as facades, colors, aspect ratios, maintenance, and vegetation, has a very close association with walking preferences. The outcome of the study would also help architects, urban designers and planners, and policy makers to create positive spaces to foster urban commercial street types as place-making and aesthetically pleasing streets.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263522000267User behaviorUrban commercial streetsMixed-useAesthetical characteristicsPlace makingFacade characteristics |
| spellingShingle | Sanjana Balasubramanian Chandramathy Irulappan Jinu Louishidha Kitchley Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments Frontiers of Architectural Research User behavior Urban commercial streets Mixed-use Aesthetical characteristics Place making Facade characteristics |
| title | Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments |
| title_full | Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments |
| title_fullStr | Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments |
| title_short | Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments |
| title_sort | aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments |
| topic | User behavior Urban commercial streets Mixed-use Aesthetical characteristics Place making Facade characteristics |
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