Does Intelligibility Affect Place Legibility? Understanding the Relationship Between Objective and Subjective Evaluations of the Urban Environment

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 616-640

  Long, Yixiang ^a   Baran, Perver K ^b  

^a Hunan Provincial Architecture Design Institute   (China)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

intelligibility; legibility; space syntax; spatial cognition; urban environment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GREENSPACE; POLICY MAKING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL COGNITION; URBAN ATMOSPHERE; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

EID: 84864795401     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916511402059     Document Type: Article

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