An Approach to Landscape Planning Viewed from the Time Dimension

Abstract

It is very important that a human behavioral approach to landscape planning in a neighborhood level have a time dimension. Time dimension means at what time and for how long are various daily activities performed by the resident. Households within urban, suburban and rural residential districts were chosen in this study. We tried to assess their daily behavioral pattern from the viewpoint of a time dimension and to analyze the relationship between human behavior and the total landscape. The study produced the following findings: 1) Peoples leisure and outdoor activities are the best means through which contact with the green landscape. 2) The entire landscape influences human behavior. 3) Households who have members over fifty years old should be the target for landscape planning on a neighborhood level.