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Abstract
This article describes the methodology and results of research on landscape visual capacity. The aim of the project was to develop a tool that would support planning and design decisions at the level of communal management in rural areas in Poland through systematic application of visual criteria. Their importance in the protection, management and shaping of space is underlined by the document produced at the European Landscape Convention of 2000 (ELC). To date, ELC recommendations have not been fully implemented in Poland. The author of the study used the methods of the Krakow School of Landscape Architecture in assessing cultural landscapes and referred to the assumptions of the British Landscape Character Assessment (LCA). The analysis was based on the results of a landscape identification conducted in a part of the Cekcyn commune. The assessment of visual capacity was conducted for the village of Nowy Sumin, located in that commune. The effect of the study is the classification of open landscapes with respect to the assessment of visual changes resulting from potential residential development. The results obtained prompt the conclusion that the applied method can effectively support local spatial planning as it takes national conditions into account.
Highlights
Awareness of the need to manage the visual resources of the landscape emerged in the US in the first half of the 20th century with the concept of green corridors developed by Frank Albert Waugh [1]
At the end of the 1970s, the Visual Impact Assessment procedure was introduced as part of Visual Resource Management (VRM), which consisted of a survey of visual resources designed to determine their social value, setting requirements for the protection of visual qualities in future planning and design studies, and the assessment of the potential visual and environmental impact of the planned investment [5,6]
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Summary
Awareness of the need to manage the visual resources of the landscape emerged in the US in the first half of the 20th century with the concept of green corridors developed by Frank Albert Waugh [1]. In the 1960s, first attempts were made at conducting a survey on visual resources while planning recreational areas. These attempts, in turn, gave rise to the Visual Resource Management (VRM) system, which is still applied today [2,3,4]. The concept of visual absorption capability was first used in 1969 by Peter Jacobs and Douglas Way in the meaning of: the varying ability of different landscapes to screen or mask development activities based on vegetative density, topographic closure and visual complexity [7]. The term is still generally defined as the ability of a landscape to embrace changes without affecting its character
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