Recent legislative trends in the United States; the United Kingdom; and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics. Most of this assessment is currently undertaken using traditional design judgment; but when the powers of the government are used to enforce policy the scope of the aesthetic evaluation requires consideration of questions such as `What concepts will aesthetic decision makers need to perform their intended function?; `How can they obtain the information they need?; and `What is currently known about environmental aesthetics?. This book answers those questions with a solid; logical theory of environmental aesthetics; empirical evidence covering 277 studies; 41;000 respondents and 12;000 stimuli; and seven case histories showing how the theory can be applied to actual aesthetic decisions. The book proposes a unified protocol for measuring the magnitude of aesthetic impacts. It also applies that protocol to 94 specific findings which span a very wide range of issues.
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Review
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Nice; but dont waste your 80 bucks!By M. KeithThis book represents a quick fix; an insight bringing a bit of light to a few different areas of construction. Understand however that it is by no means an exhaustive or in-depth resource. This is a book that would best serve in the glove box in the site truck of a general contractor. For that purpose it is a sound resource. Physically the book is like a working copy or rough draft of a manuscript before it goes off to press. It needs more work; more research and much better publication. I could swear my copy was printed on a copy machine at Kinkos or something. As such I would have no trouble throwing it under the seat of my truck along with the dog-eared road atlas. To view this book in that way may well be quite appropriate actually. A resource kept at hand to be used when one is completely lost and needs some sound; simple directions. This book should be called "The Git-R-Done Book of Architectural Woodwork".The back of the book and the online editorial says; "If youre spending too much time chasing down information on architectural woodwork and its many synthetic counterparts-and still not finding all the answers you need to do the job-you can stop looking now."Ok; tell you what...keep looking. Save your $80.00 and by 3 or 4 better books from Taunton Press. I dont know; maybe this was used as the basis for a much better book later. Just do not buy this rough draft. I am so glad I didnt pay much.
