Lange, E., 1994, Integration of computerized visual simulation and visual assessment in environmental planning, in: Landscape and Urban Planning, 30,
- Author : Lange, E.
- Year : 1994
- Title English : Integration of computerized visual simulation and visual assessment in environmental planning
- Journal/Series : Landscape and Urban Planning
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 30
- Pages : 99-112
- Abstract in English : During the recent decades, changes in the landscape have occurred rapidly and very dramatically. Increasing enviromental awareness makes it necessary to develop methods which assist in assessing and evaluation environmental changes including visual impacts on the landscape. Exiisting legal regulations in Switzerland regarding the visual landscape and its protection are examined. Technical difficulties in the visualization of landscape change, methodological problems in the evaluation of landscape beauty, and the lack of clarity in integration visual aspects in the planning process are identified as major reasons for the insufficient consideration of visual aspects in practice. As an axample, a proposed hydroelectric power station at the Bernina Pass in the Swiss Alps (Lago Bianco) is discussed, to illustrate how new computerized visualization techniques can applied to help fulfil legal regulations and to predict the visual consequences.
- Comments/Notes : KEYWORDS: Computer visualization, environmental planning, visual assessment