Measuring physical characteristics of housing: the Built Environment Site Survey Checklist (BESSC)
Measuring physical characteristics of housing: the Built Environment Site Survey Checklist (BESSC)
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10.1068/b3038
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发表时间：
2005-03-01
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Prince, M
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作者：
Burton, E;Weich, S;Prince, M
由于缺乏可靠的测量工具，建筑环境领域的实证研究受到阻碍。作者认为，需要客观的、描述性的、全面的、可靠的、实用的、涉及所有环境尺度的建筑形式的衡量标准。他们概述了一种测量住房物理特征的仪器的开发，用于惠康信托资助的一项关于再生对心理健康影响的研究。建筑环境现场调查核对表(BESSC)包含了一系列项目，旨在由建筑环境专家为个别预先确定的“住房区域”进行评级。使用分类变量的K统计量和加权K统计量以及项目排名和连续测量的组内相关系数来检验BESSC的评分者间信度。大多数项目被认为是可靠的，尽管该工具需要进一步完善，但它为调查替代城市形态的相对优点和产生基于研究的设计指南提供了巨大的潜力。
Empirical research in the built environment field is hampered by a lack of reliable measurement tools. The authors argue that there is a need for measures of built form that are objective, descriptive, comprehensive, reliable, practical, and address all environmental scales. They outline the development of an instrument to measure physical characteristics of housing for use in a study funded by the Wellcome Trust, on the effects of regeneration on mental health. The Built Environment Site Survey Checklist (BESSC) contains a wide range of items designed to be rated by built environment specialists for individual predetermined 'housing areas'. The interrater reliability of the BESSC was tested using the K and weighted K statistics for categorical variables and item rankings and intraclass correlation coefficients for continuous measures. The majority of the items were found to be reliable and, although the instrument requires further refinement, it offers substantial potential for investigation of the relative merits of alternative urban forms and the generation of research-based design guidance.