Exploring the Visual Landscape: Advances in Physiognomic Landscape Research in the Netherlands

335 Pages·2011·36.595 MB·English

by  S. Nijhuis, R. Van Lammeren, F.D. Van Der Hoeven

EXPLORING THE VISUAL
LAND SCAPE
Research in Urbanism Series (RiUS)
Volume 2
ISSN 1875-0192 (print)
ISSN 1879-8217 (online)
Series editors
Frank van der Hoeven, PhD
Steffen Nijhuis
Scientifi c committee (peer reviewers)
Marc Antrop, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Ghent University, Department
of Geography
Michael Batty, PhD
Professor, University College London, Centre for
Advanced Spatial Analysis
Christina von Haaren, PhD
Professor, Leibniz University Hanover, Department
of Landscape Planning and Nature Conservation
James F. Palmer, PhD
Professor Emeritus, State University of New York,
College of Environmental Science and Forestry,
Department of Landscape Architecture
Mari Sundli Tveit, PhD
Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life
sciences, Department of Landscape Architecture
and Spatial Planning
Aims & scope
RiUS is a scientifi c series that deals with dynamics,
planning, and design in contemporary urban areas.
It provides an outlet for investigation, analysis, and
exploration in the overlapping fi elds of urban design,
urban planning, regional planning, metropolitan
design, spatial planning, urban renewal, urban
management, landscape architecture, environmental
design, sustainability, urban technology, urban
mobility, cultural heritage.
RiUS is aimed at designers, researchers, planners,
consultants, decision-makers, and politicians. It pays
special attention to design, research, techniques,
methodology and theory.
RiUS laboratory facilitates a dialogue between
the community and society at large through high
quality publications focusing on transformation and
sustainability.
EXPLORING THE VISUAL
LAND SCAPE
Advances in Physiognomic Landscape
Research in the Netherlands
Edited by
Steffen Nijhuis
Ron van Lammeren
Frank van der Hoeven
In cooperation with
IOS Press, 2011
Editors
Steffen Nijhuis
Ron van Lammeren
Frank van der Hoeven
Copy-editing
Sara King
Art director
Joost van Grinsven
Layout
Inkahootz, Amsterdam
Photography
Hollandse Hoogte: Mischa Keijser (p. 6), Goos van der
Veen (p. 12), Peter Hilz (p. 100), Joost Hoving (p. 226),
Siebe Swart (p. 316)
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Keywords
Design research, landscape architecture, urban
design, landscape planning, landscape policy, visual
landscape, GIS, landscape perception
ISBN 978-1-60750-832-8 (print)
ISBN 978-1-60750-833-5 (online)
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CONT ENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8 Virtual historical landscapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Arnoud de Boer, Leen Breure, Sandor Spruit, Hans Voorbij
Part 1
THEORY 9 Mapping landscape openness with
isovists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
1 Exploring visual landscapes – Gerd Weitkamp
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Steffen Nijhuis, Ron van Lammeren, Marc Antrop
Part 3
2 Psychology of the visual landscape. . . . . . . . . . . 41 LANDSCAPE POLICY
Maarten Jacobs
10 Landscape policy and visual landscape
3 The phenomenological experience assessment – The Province of Noord-
of the visual landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Holland as a case study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Ana Moya Pellitero Steffen Nijhuis, Miranda Reitsma
4 Geomatics in physiognomic landscape 11 Preserving panoramic views along
research – A Dutch view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 motorways through policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Ron van Lammeren Maarten Piek, Niels Sorel, Manon van Middelkoop
12 Hi Rise, I can see you! Planning and
Part 2 visibility assessment of high building
LANDSCAPE RESEARCH AND DESIGN development in Rotterdam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Frank van der Hoeven, Steffen Nijhuis
5 Visual research in landscape
architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 13 Visions of Belle van Zuylen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Steffen Nijhuis Han Lörzing
6 Mapping landscape attractiveness – Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
A GIS-based landscape appreciation
model for the Dutch countryside. . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Literature guide to landscape perception
Janneke Roos-Klein Lankhorst, Sjerp de Vries, Arjen Buijs research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
7 The one- and two-dimensional isovists About the authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
analyses in Space Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Akkelies van Nes
52° 6’ 51” N, 4° 44’ 15” E
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PREFACE
Visual landscape assessment is a key element in landscape planning, management and monitor-
ing, and serves as an important basis for landscape policy. The identifying character of rural and
urban environments is, to a large extent, built upon visual perception. Visual landscape attributes
like spaciousness and related indicators, such as degree of openness, building density and the
nature of spatial boundaries, are important elements in landscape perception and preference.
This book is about the combination of landscape research and planning, visual perception and
Geographic Information Science. It showcases possible ways of getting a grip on themes like:
landscape openness, cluttering of the rural landscape, high-rise buildings in relation to cityscape,
historical landscapes and motorway panoramas. It offers clues for visual landscape assessment of
spaces in cities, parks and rural areas. In that respect, it extends the long tradition in the Nether-
lands on physiognomic landscape research and shows the state of the art at this moment.
The book offers important clues for theory, methodology and application in research and de-
velopment of landscapes all over the world, from a specifi cally Dutch academic context. It pro-
vides a wide range of insights into the psychological background of landscape perception, the
technical considerations of geomatics and methodology in landscape architecture, urban plan-
ning and design. There are also some experiences worthwhile considering, which demonstrate
how this research can be applied in the practice of landscape policy making.
An effort like this is only possible with the help and cooperation of many people. Firstly, we
would like to acknowledge the esteemed members of the scientifi c committee: Marc Antrop,
Michael Batty, Christina von Haaren, James Palmer and Mari Sundli Tveit for their critical, con-
structive comments on the manuscripts and the structure of the book.
Furthermore, we would like to acknowledge the Department of Urbanism, the Chair of Land-
scape Architecture and the Library of Delft University of Technology, and the Environmental
Sciences Group of Wageningen University for their generous fi nancial support. We would espe-
cially like to thank Amber Leeuwenburg, Anke Versteeg, Stephen Sheppard and Inge Bobbink
for making this possible. We would also like to thank Mark Eligh of IOS Press for his patience
and cooperation. And fi nally, Joost van Grinsven and Sara King for their efforts making it a
well-designed and accessible book.
The editors
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