The Effectiveness of design guideline regulations for improving streetscape

市政府或开发商制定设计指南，以在新城镇中创造和谐的压力环境。然而，这些规定往往在没有任何实证研究的情况下武断地做出决定。本研究使用视景模拟系统来测试建筑物的颜色、高度、建筑外立面的平面度以及与街道的凹陷等物理特征对行人对该场所印象的影响。30名受试者被要求对他们对“秩序”和“简单”的印象进行评分，并在体验了模拟场景后对气氛进行了评估。研究结果揭示了行人的生理特征与行人反应之间的关系。

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.