A Case Study on the Image Composition of a Multi-characteristic Green Space

Abstract

This study aims to examine seasonal change impression variation of an urban green space and the relationships between the overall impressions and those of some spaces which are in the green space. Using the semantic differential method, the impressions of users in two seasons and those of some slides which had been taken in four seasons were surveyed. The factor analysis showed the basic factors in the impressions.
Although there was little seasonal difference in the impressions of users, there were some differences in the slide test on some scales which show evaluation and oderliness. The regression analysis showed that about 20 to 80 percent of the variance of overall impressions were predictable by means of the parts space impressions. The difference in the percentage is due to the difference of the impression scales and seasons. It was clearthat some places were more influential than other places. It is supposed that some users overall impressions, especially preference, are effected by the places where they stay longer. In the preference scale in the case of the user survey, the mean rating of the overall impressions were higher than any other part space. It may be that the overall impressions are formed not only by the part impressions but also by other factors such as user satisfaction of the total experience of the green space (e.g., the influence of sequential experience). Further studies ought to make clearer the reasons for the low predictabili-ty of some impression scales.