TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Design review and public preferences: effects of geographic location, public consensus, sensation seeking and architectural styles
JO  - Journal of environmental psychology
A1  - Stamps, Arthur E., III
A1  - Nasar, Jack Leon
SP  - 11
EP  - 32
VL  - 17
IS  - 1
N2  - To improve community appearance, most cities in the United States have implemented design review, but empirical studies of design review are rare. Key issues are the effects on preferences of: (1) design review per se; (2) common design review principles such as visual bulk; (3) common demographic factors such as geo- graphical location, age, gender, ethnic or political affiliations; and (4) the personality factor of sensation seek- ing. The present article describes a preference experiment on 35 houses as judged by 82 respondents in two different cities. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that design review, bulk, demographic and personality factors account for much less preference than did the architectural components of style or individual buildings.   Copyright 1997 Academic Press Limited<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0272-4944
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -