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Aesthetical cognitive perceptions of urban street form. Pedestrian preferences towards straight or curvy route shapes

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	D’Acci, Luca
Copyright Year	2019
Description	Human perception of space is not purely metric. Route angularity and complexity-minimizing paths suggest that pedestrians, consciously or not, tend to reduce the number and the angle of turns when selecting routes. Decisions involving route selection are different when the main criterion is not the orientation but the aesthetics of urban forms. This paper indicates that 80% of a stratified random sample of 102 people stated to prefer, ceteris paribus and for continuous/legible routes, to walk throughout curvy paths instead of straight and felt the former as shorter too, to generically walk through a route, and to reach a destination.
Related Links	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13574809.2018.1554994?needAccess=true
Ending Page	912
Page Count	17
Starting Page	896
ISSN	13574809
e-ISSN	14699664
DOI	10.1080/13574809.2018.1554994
Journal	Journal of Urban Design
Issue Number	6
Volume Number	24
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2019-01-15
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Urban Studies Pedestrian Criterion Preferences Destination Straight Angularity Former Shorter
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies Arts and Humanities

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