Fractal analysis of street vistas: A potential tool for assessing levels of visual variety in everyday street scenes

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 349-363

  Cooper, John ^a   Oskrochi, Reza ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; URBAN AREA; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 42449100329     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b33081     Document Type: Article

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