Fractal analysis and perception of visual quality in everyday street vistas

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 808-822

  Cooper, Jon ^a   Watkinson, David ^a   Oskrochi, Reza ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 77958106672     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b34061     Document Type: Article

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