Capturing landscape visual character using indicators: Touching base with landscape aesthetic theory

Landscape Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-117

  Ode, Åsa ^a   Tveit, Mari ^b   Fry, Gary ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Landscape analysis; Landscape indicator; Visual character

Indexed keywords

ESTHETICS; LANDSCAPE; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 38348999240     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426390701773854     Document Type: Article

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