Measuring oppressiveness of streetscapes

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Asgarzadeh, Morteza ^a   Lusk, Anne ^a   Koga, Takaaki ^b   Hirate, Kotaroh ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental stress; High rise buildings; Oppressiveness; Streetscape; Tree

Indexed keywords

PLANNING; TALL BUILDINGS; URBAN PLANNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HIGH RISE BUILDING; OPPRESSIVENESS; STREETSCAPE; TREE;

FORESTRY;

CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HEALTH IMPACT; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TREE PLANTING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION;

BUILDINGS; FORESTRY; PLANNING;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 84861836202     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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