Recent Publication in Landscape and Urban Planning

Our recent publication in the Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning highlights a body of research developed over nine years in a PhD research. The paper highlights:

• Importance of visual amenity issues in development conflicts.
• Lack of measurable tools in assessing visual impacts of high-rise buildings.
• A new assessment method to quantify magnitude of change resulted from height and bulk of built forms.
• A new interpretation of visible space in vertical plane by projection of visual bowl.
• Increase reliability and certainty of visual impact assessments.

The paper draws out a clear direction to continue the research and achieve tangible outcomes for city planning and design.

Link to the published paper (50 days free download)