Surveying and mapping people's emotional response to their environment as they walk through the streets of their urban area.
A new paper presents a new method of surveying people's feelings in the environment, at the neighborhood scale. It attempts to bridge a gap between neighbohrood quality studies which tend to rely on aggregate assessments of well-being, and environmental preference studies, which tend to concentrate on physical variables only and to rely on a highly structured set of stimuli.
The paper concludes with a discussion of the possible use of this method in neighborhood planning and urban design. The potential of the method as a tool in citizen participation in planning, and as a vehicle for bridging between lay persons' and professionals' perspectives on the neighborhood, is highlighted.
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FULL STORY: Mapping People’s Feelings in a Neighborhood: technique, analysis and applications
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