Factors Influencing the Perception of Urban Space

Abstract

All over the word, the phenomenon of urbanization has always faced problems of preserving the essence and identity of cities. The various means of elaboration and urban action are often called into question for their inability to conserve and develop coherent urban forms. Since the seventies of the last century, the legibility of an urban landscape has always been an objective in the urbanization process. The clarity of an urban landscape, as mentioned by K. Lynch in his book 'The image of the city' in 1969, is the ease of identifying the elements of the city and structuring them into a coherent scheme; it is about the perception of the urban space. Therefore, the perceived image of urban space is the pre-existing base of the gaze, which appeals to multiple gains such as aesthetics, beauty and other cultural principles and values that depend on who is watching. A better knowledge of the mechanisms of human visual perception has an impact on the conception of the image, which depends on several factors. What are these different factors of perception of the urban space? How do they influence the ability to perceive objects in a living environment?