The Effectiveness of design guideline regulations for improving streetscape

市政府或开发商制定设计指南，在新镇创造一个和谐的压力景观。然而，这些规定往往是在没有任何实证研究的情况下武断决定的。本研究采用视觉模拟系统来测试建筑物的物理特征，如颜色、高度、建筑物立面的平整度及其与街道的凹槽对行人对该地点的印象的影响。30名受试者被要求评价他们对“秩序”、“简单”的印象，并在经历了模拟场景后评估气氛。结果表明，行人的身体特征与行人的反应之间存在一定的关系。

Municipal governments or developers make design guidelines to create a harmonious stresstscape in a new town. The regulations, however, have often decided arbitrarily without any empirical research. The present study employed a visual simulation system to test the effects of such physical features of the buildings as color, height, flatness of the building facade and its recess from the street on pedestrians' impressions of the place. Thirty subjects were asked to rate their impressions of "order", "simple", and to evaluate the atmosphere after experienced the simulated scenes. The results revealed some relations between the physical features and the pedestrians' response.