1987 Volume 375 Pages 64-75
The physical attributes perceived of the townscape composed with the bank building were studied through the sorting experiments of 80 color photographs by 20 architectural students. The experiments were proceeded in 3 areas. (1) on the bank building itself, (2) on it's surroundings, (3) on the relationship between the bank building and it's surroundings. The similarity matrix which was constructed from this sorting process was imput to the multidimensional scaling analysis "SINDSCAL". 5 sorting dimensions from each experiment were extracted and interpretated for the physical attributes.