Abstract
Investigating how people perceive Chinese Classical Gardens (CCGs) and their appeal are important issues of landscape studies. By considering the Liu-Yuan Garden, we developed a measurement instrument to investigate the perceived dimensions of landscape appreciation. Based on literature review, the descriptive items to measure how people perceived Liu-Yuan Garden were developed. Then, the explorative factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were employed, and six dimensions were extracted and validated including “Adoration”, “Nostalgia”, “Liveliness”, “Exquisiteness”, “Hedonic Value”, and “Placeness”. Finally, the Ordinary Linear Regression method was employed to estimate how the aesthetic appreciation is influenced by these perceived dimensions. The result revealed that four of these dimensions were significantly correlated with aesthetic pleasure. The influences of these perceived dimensions on aesthetic pleasure were measured and compared. The results indicated that “Placeness” provided the most important influence on aesthetic pleasure, whereas “Liveliness” was the least influential of the four related dimensions.
Highlights
People are affected by the aesthetics of nature, landscapes, and architecture [1,2,3,4]
This research originates from the hypothesis that the aesthetic pleasure of a Classical Gardens (CCGs) is multidimensional
Liu-Yuan Garden as a case study, we present how a measurement instrument was developed to investigate the perceived dimensions of landscape appreciation
Summary
People are affected by the aesthetics of nature, landscapes, and architecture [1,2,3,4]. Different landscape characteristics influence people’s attitudes, and eventually translate to the landscape experience and aesthetic pleasure [5]. As a distinctive branch of the world’s landscape family and excellent carriers of East Asian cultures, Chinese Classical Gardens (CCGs) encapsulate advantages of sustainability, ecological value, urban function, pleasure, and healthcare [6]. Among these benefits, the landscape aesthetics of CCGs have been extensively recognized as important attributes to evaluate their overall quality [7], empirical studies on this issue with quantitative methods are still in a lack.
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