抄録
The effects of scale and form variables on visual evaluation of urban waterside spaces were assessed through a psychological experiment employing student respondents in order to develop design guide-lines. Eighty-three samples of fountains, streams and other man-made facilities were selected and the semantic differential technique was applied. Factor analysis extracted three factors explaining the structure of evaluation: "movement", "familiarity" and "abundance of water". The samples were classified into five groups by means of cluster analysis: small-scale fountains or cascades, large-scale ponds, etc. Multiple correlation analysis revealed that the scale and form variables explained the variance of the "movement" and "abundance of water" factors as much as 60 to 70 per cent.
